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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
— Alberto Moravia
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Alberto Moravia
journalist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, politician, poet, writer, film director, critic
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Alberto Pincherle, known by his pseudonym Alberto Moravia, was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his debut novel Gli indifferenti and for the anti-fascist novel Il conformista, the basis for the film The Conformist (1970) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Other novels of his adapted for the cinema are Agostino, filmed with the same title by Mauro Bolognini in 1962; Il disprezzo, filmed by Jean-Luc Godard as Le Mépris ; La noia (Boredom), filmed with that title by Damiano Damiani in 1963 and released in the US as The Empty Canvas in 1964 and La ciociara, filmed by Vittorio De Sica as Two Women (1960). Cédric Kahn's L'Ennui (1998) is another version of La noia.
All Quotes by Alberto Moravia
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In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
— Alberto Moravia
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This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.
— Alberto Moravia