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Luigi Barzini Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the italian journalist Luigi Barzini on topics like public, fried, food

  • Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

    — Luigi Barzini on food
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  • Their smiles and laughter are due to their habit of thinking pleasurably aloud about the pleasures of life. They have humanity rather than humour, and the real significance of the distinction is seldom understood.

    — Luigi Barzini on humanity
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  • I myself spent hours at the Columbia library as intimidated and embarassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.

    — Luigi Barzini on libraries
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  • Foreign diplomats in Rome disconsolately say, Italy is the opposite of Russia.

    In Moscow nothing is known, yet everything is clear. In Rome everything is public, there are no secrets, everybody talks, things are at times flamboyantly enacted, yet one understands nothing.

    — Luigi Barzini on diplomacy
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  • They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

    — Luigi Barzini on food
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  • About Luigi Barzini

    Name Luigi Barzini
    Quotes 5 quotations
    Nationality Italian
    Profession Journalist
    Birthday October 16
    About Luigi Barzini was an Italian journalist, writer and politician most famous for his 1964 book The Italians, delving deeply into the Italian national character and introducing many Anglo-Saxon readers to Italian life and culture.
    Top topics public, fried, food, dish, cuisines

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