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“Like many Eastern European gangsters, he had been an official in the state security apparatus until the Communist regime collapsed.”

Italy Gangsters Eastern Europeans

Book:Bandit Love

Source: Bandit Love

“What I'm trying to do is save your ass, gorgeous.”

Italy Hard Boiled

Book:Bandit Love

Source: Bandit Love

“The thing I hated most about moving was having to buy everything all over again; all the household objects, from furniture to silverware, that you find in any home. Normally, you buy them with the idea that they are going to last over time, be part of your everyday life, and have a history. For a fugitive, it’s different: the only criterion is temporary use, and so each and every object necessarily loses its worth. I thought of them as non-objects, the non-possessions of a non-person living a non-life.”

Fleeting Fugitive Disposability

Book:Il fuggiasco

Source: Il fuggiasco

“The least appealing part of the day, though, was definitely lunch. Our shepherd had decided that the finest specialty of the area was armadillo, and there wasn't a single Sunday that his wife failed to cook us up an armadillo—but only after clubbing the critter to death before our eyes.”

Hunting Armadillo Exotic Food

Author:Massimo Carlotto

“The ideal way to ensure a healthy digestion is to go to the movies. The movie house is a place of truce, a non-combat area where, once the lights are dimmed and the film is running, the only reality is the movie itself. All the little realities of the individuals in the audience are canceled.”

Cinema Privacy The Movies

Book:Il fuggiasco

Source: Il fuggiasco

“Spending ten days in a subway station search for a four-year-old boy was an experience that will stay with me for the rest of my life. Not merely because of the desperation that gripped me every minute of those ten days, but especially because of my sense of helplessness in the face of a city so huge that it could swallow up anything, anyone, without explanation, as if they had never existed. Amidst the most absolute indifference. Even a little boy that you had seen playing until just a few hours ago.”

Urban Sprawl Missing Children

Book:Il fuggiasco

Source: Il fuggiasco

“I asked nothing more than to be judged justly. My act didn’t always play well with my audience, and the reviews (which came in the form of verdicts) often panned my performance. In the end, however, the theater company of justice decided that, cost what it may, that role would belong to me for all time, even after the production had finished its run, and no more performances were scheduled. Playing “out of character” had therefore been my way of choosing freedom.”

Justice System Show Trial

Book:Il fuggiasco

Source: Il fuggiasco