I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.
The historian amputates reality.
In actual fact, it is the State, i. e. , the taxpayer who has become responsible to private enterprise. In Fascist Italy the State pays for the blunders of private enterprise Profit is private and individual. Loss is public and social.
The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.
It figures you've got to hate yourself if you've got any integrity at all.
Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead.
Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.
I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.