Romain Gary
Romain Gary
Romain Gary, born Roman Kacew and also known by pen names such as Émile Ajar, was a French diplomat, novelist, film director and World War II aviator of Litvak origin. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt twice under two names...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 May 1914
CountryRussian Federation
mother dog condolences
With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until your days end. After that, each time a woman holds you in her arms and against her chest, these are merely condolences. You always come back to yell at your mother's grave like an abandoned dog. Never again, never again, never again.
dark mushrooms clouds
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.
men race track
I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.
mean fire trials
Gari in Russian means "burn!"... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.
thinking long get-better
As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.
inspirational reality literature
Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.
mother dream inspiration
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.
moving voice feelings
Sometimes I have the feeling that we live in a dubbed movie and everybody moves their lips but the voices don't correspond. We are all post-synchronized and sometimes is very accomplished and looks natural.