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Romain Gary

film director, screenwriter, diplomat, translator, aircraft pilot, novelist, writer, Français libre

1914  – 1980

Romain Gary, born Roman Kacew and also known by the pen name Émile Ajar, was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt twice. He is considered a major writer of French literature of the second half of the 20th century. He was married to Lesley Blanch, then Jean Seberg.

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When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

Romain Gary

Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.

Romain Gary

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.

Romain Gary

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

Romain Gary

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

Romain Gary

Gari in Russian means "burn!"… I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.

Romain Gary

During the war he was an airman and slaughtered civilians from on high.

Romain Gary

The gossip that came back to me from fashionable dinners where people pitied poor Romain Gary, who must be a little sad, a little jealous of the meteoric rise in the literary firmament of his cousin Emile Ajar… I’ve had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

Romain Gary

Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Romain Gary

The bombs I dropped on Germany between 1940 and 1944 maybe killed a Rilke or a Goethe or a Hölderin in his cradle. And yes, of course, if it had to be done over, I would do it again. Hitler had condemned us to kill. Not even the most just causes are ever innocent.

Romain Gary

She was standing at the door, and the sheer visual delight, the sharp ache of happiness, something like the sight of fleeing moments of beauty that are so much a part of the life’s vanishing act, with its total absence of forever, filled him as usual with that greed, that tyrannical urge to seize, to keep and preserve and never lose again, which is perhaps how twenty thousand years ago the first image of an antelope came to be painted by an artist upon a rock. Then she put her blouse on and Time, the old robber baron, went by, carrying his loots away.

Romain Gary

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Romain Gary