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My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.
- Donna Leon
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#Mother
#New
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I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now.
- Donna Leon
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#Know
#Me
#Memory
#Remember
I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.
- Donna Leon
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#Lunch
#Never
#Something
I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure could plot.
- Donna Leon
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#Admire
#Beyond
#Women
#Words
I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.
- Donna Leon
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#Find
#Justice
#Person
#Will
I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book.
- Donna Leon
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#Good
#House
#Me
#Opera
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.
- Donna Leon
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#Better
#Nature
#People
#Work
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Donna Leon
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#Liberal
#Supreme Court
#Supreme
I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.
- Donna Leon
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#Happen
#Know
#Never
#Plan
I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.
- Donna Leon
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#Antagonism
#Had
#Military
The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.
- Donna Leon
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#Letters
#Me
#Polite
#Reserved
The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.
- Donna Leon
#Any
#Ending
#Hope
#Sort
#Without
I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion.
- Donna Leon
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#Music
#Opera
#Passion
#Real
I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.
- Donna Leon
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#First Time
#Friendship
#Time
#Two
I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.
- Donna Leon
#Be Happy
#Famous
#Fun
#Never
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