Josef Camilleri Quotes

“Don't be afraid of change. You may lose something good, but you will gain something better.”

“The inspector sat down on a stair, fired up a cigarette, and entered an immobility contest with a lizard.”

“The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.”

“Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.”

“It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.”

“It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.”

“There was no one to blame but the mighty, ruthless stranger. Thus was complexity reduced to demonology, which is a defining feature of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, or, indeed, any "anti-ism.”

“To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.- Jósef Piłsudski”

“The restoration of man’s inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age — unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one’s realm of life all those inane and contrived but titillating illusions incessantly generated by the entertainment industry.”

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