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Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.

Andrea Camilleri

The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.

Andrea Camilleri

What do two women friends usually do when they see each other? We talked, we watched television, we listened to music Sometimes we did nothing at all. It was a pleasure just to know the other one was there.

Andrea Camilleri

Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly.

Andrea Camilleri

But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the inspector, it was an effect of the distance between them becoming less and less tolerable with each passing day, since as we grow old - for every now and then one must, yes, look reality in the eye and call things by their proper names - we feel more keenly the need to have the person we love beside us.

Andrea Camilleri

Andrea Camilleri

Andrea Camilleri

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Born: September 6, 1925

Died: July 17, 2019 (aged 93)

Bio: Andrea Calogero Camilleri was an Italian writer.

Known for:

The Voice of the Violin (1997)
Excursion to Tindari (2000)
The Terracotta Dog (1996)
August Heat (2006)
The Scent of the Night (2001)

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