List of Romain Gary Quotes

There Is More To Jewish History Than Auschwitz.

Literature Is Greater Than Any Of Us, Dammit.

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.

'gari' In Russian Means "burn!"... I Want To Test Myself, A Trial By Fire, So That My 'i' Is Burned Off.

I Am Weak, I Say With No Presumptions. I Have No Merit, I Note It, That Is All. There Are Times That I Feel So Weak There Most Be A Mistake, And As I Don't Know What I Mean With This, I Am Not Going To Say Anything Else

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.

A Writer's Subconscious Is One Of The Filthiest Places There Are: As A Matter Of Fact, You Can Find The Whole World There.

...the Only Way To Prove You Are Normal Is To Smash Someone's Face In

Men Sometimes Die Much Earlier Than They Are Burried.

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.

I've Had A Lot Of Fun. Good-bye, And Thank You.

Reality Is Not An Inspiration For Literature. At Its Best, Literature Is An Inspiration For Reality.