Donna Leon's Quote - I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough t

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I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough t

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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And I dont want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I dont like that. – Donna Leon

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I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun. – Donna Leon

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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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It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. – Khalil Gibran

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. – Kenneth Branagh

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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. – Thomas Aquinas

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