"Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand."
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Interviewed in The New Yorker, May 7, 1955.
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Alberto Moravia
Alberto Moravia (November 28, 1907 – September 26, 1990), born Alberto Pincherle, was an Italian fiction-writer, screenwriter and essayist. His novels were initially attacked by the Fascist government and placed on the Index by the Catholic church, but later won great critical and popular success.
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