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Erri De Luca quotes: The spoon is a reader's friend, scooping from the plate almost by itself. The fork requires more attention.

The spoon is a reader's friend, scooping from the plate almost by itself. The fork requires more attention.

Erri De Luca quotes: Death that tears away clumps of us folks, stuffs thousands of the living, freshly plucked into its sack.

Death that tears away clumps of us folks, stuffs thousands of the living, freshly plucked into its sack.

Erri De Luca quotes: I can hardly keep track of the things I don't know, but every now and then comes an ignorance that makes me nostalgic.

I can hardly keep track of the things I don't know, but every now and then comes an ignorance that makes me nostalgic.

Erri De Luca quotes: War is when young men dream of being grandfathers.

War is when young men dream of being grandfathers.

Erri De Luca quotes: That's how you keep someone tied to you, not set them free. You say no to a man and don't give him the peace of repayment.

That's how you keep someone tied to you, not set them free. You say no to a man and don't give him the peace of repayment.

Erri De Luca quotes: I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world.

I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world.

Erri De Luca quotes: This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his

This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae.

Erri De Luca quotes: It's disgusting to kill, Laila. You never get rid of death's grease. It doesn't wash away.

It's disgusting to kill, Laila. You never get rid of death's grease. It doesn't wash away.

Erri De Luca quotes: I love you because that piece that remains is worth the whole and I love you by exclusion of the other lost pieces.

I love you because that piece that remains is worth the whole and I love you by exclusion of the other lost pieces.

Erri De Luca quotes: I like people who can't die in their bed.

I like people who can't die in their bed.

Erri De Luca quotes: A man dies and his skin loses heat like the sand on a summer evening. It makes you feel like warming him up.

A man dies and his skin loses heat like the sand on a summer evening. It makes you feel like warming him up.

Erri De Luca quotes: The geometry of the things around us creates coincidences, intersections.

The geometry of the things around us creates coincidences, intersections.

Erri De Luca quotes: Build your house with the stones they hurled at you

Build your house with the stones they hurled at you

Erri De Luca quotes: You're right to say "hold on to" instead of "keep." To keep is presumptuous. To hold means you realize that today it's yours and tomorrow who knows.

You're right to say "hold on to" instead of "keep." To keep is presumptuous. To hold means you realize that today it's yours and tomorrow who knows.

Erri De Luca quotes: Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for.

Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for.

Erri De Luca quotes: Sometimes to take two steps in a row, one after the other, I need to make a contract with myself.

Sometimes to take two steps in a row, one after the other, I need to make a contract with myself.