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Foreign diplomats in Rome disconsolately say, Italy is the opposite of Russia. In Moscow nothing is known, yet everything is clear. In Rome everything is public, there are no secrets, everybody talks, things are at times flamboyantly enacted, yet one understands nothing. – Luigi Barzini

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To put up a show is to face lifes injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination. – Luigi Barzini

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Their smiles and laughter are due to their habit of thinking pleasurably aloud about the pleasures of life. They have humanity rather than humour, and the real significance of the distinction is seldom understood. – Luigi Barzini

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Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. – Luigi Barzini

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