Leonardo Sciascia Professions : WriterBorn : January 8, 1921Died : November 20, 1989 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Leonardo Sciascia The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. Leonardo Sciascia languagesidessaid The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia Leonardo Sciascia words-of-wisdommoontruth All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination. Leonardo Sciascia dimensionsimagination A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread. Leonardo Sciascia stupidityregretnice I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it. Leonardo Sciascia hatekinddoe Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writerAll Authors
