15 Quotes & Sayings By Oriana Fallaci

Oriana Fallaci (born 26 February 1928) is an Italian journalist, author and pundit. She is most well known for her works of journalism, which often address controversial topics such as war, sex, politics and religion. Her memoirs, La rabbia e l'orgoglio (The Rage and the Pride), published in Italy in 2000, and Sex and Power: A Manifesto for Women, published in the United States in 2004, have caused a great stir throughout the world. She is one of the most controversial figures of Italian journalism.

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I live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy. and i am proud of it. i am so even though such percentage is small or i should say irrelevant. Oriana Fallaci
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But here's what I've learned in this war in this country in this city: to love the miracle of having been born. Oriana Fallaci
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I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am. Oriana Fallaci
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To have realized your dream makes you feel lost. Oriana Fallaci
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You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom you do everything to gain some right and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it. Oriana Fallaci
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With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination. Oriana Fallaci
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War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation. Oriana Fallaci
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What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology. Oriana Fallaci
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Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma. Oriana Fallaci
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test. Oriana Fallaci
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It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces. Oriana Fallaci
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When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die. Oriana Fallaci
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I am a danger to myself if I get angry. Oriana Fallaci
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The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe. Oriana Fallaci