Casanova! My dear man, Casanova is not worthy to untie my bootstrings!
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A. I. Tobin and Elmer Gertz Frank Harris: A Study in Black and White (1931) p. 324.Frank Harris
[Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.
Giacomo (Jacques Casanova de Seingal) Casanova
Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.
Kenneth Rexroth
[Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.
Giacomo (Jacques Casanova de Seingal) Casanova
Fellini, je crois que, dans ma vie, j'ai été plus Casanova que vous! J'ai fait le calcul, il ya un an ou deux. J’ai eu dix mille femmes depuis l’âge de treize ans et demi. Ce n’ést pas du tout un vice. Je n’ai aucun vice sexuel, mais j’avais besoin de communiquer.
Georges Simenon
I was heavily influenced by my first attempt at a novel. I started a fantasy novel back in high school, and.... well... it really sucked. It was a plotless, clichéd mess. When I sat down to write this book, I wanted to make something much, much better. I wanted to write something that was pretty much the opposite of that first novel.
Also, I read Cyrano De Bergerac, right before I started writing the book. Cyrano's character reminded me of some important things, namely, what it really means to be a tragic hero. You don't need a lot of the cliché fantasy trappings to have that cool character.
I also read Giacomo Casanova's memoirs soon after starting this project. That opened my eyes to how interesting an autobiography could be, provided the person telling it has a way with words and has lived a sufficiently adventurous life....Patrick Rothfuss
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