Quotes by Donna Leon

Donna Leon

A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don’t seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.

Care

Facts

Stories

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

Murder Mysteries

School

Television

And I don’t want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don’t like that.

Advantage

People

Want

And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.

Angel

Cities

Distance

favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.

Asks

Favors

People

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

Persons

Pleasure

I don’t go to the movies because I don’t like films.

Film

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.

Doe

Ideas

Justice

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

Antagonism

Military

Particular

I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.

Files

Knows

Lunch

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Quotes by Donna Leon

Donna Leon

A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don’t seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

And I don’t want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don’t like that.

And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.

favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

I don’t go to the movies because I don’t like films.

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.

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.

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