228 Quotes by Romain Gary

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

Sometimes I have the feeling that we live in a dubbed movie and everybody moves their lips but the voices don't correspond. We are all post-synchronized and sometimes is very accomplished and looks natural.

A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.

As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.

I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.