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28 quotes by Donna Leon

Donna Leon (/ˈdɒnə ˈliːɒn/; born in 1942, in Montclair, New Jersey) is the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice and featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti. Leon has lived in Venice for over 25 years. She was a lecturer in English literature for the University of Maryland University College - Europe (UMUC-Europe) in Italy and then worked as a professor from 1981 to 1999 at the American military base of...
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I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will... →

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Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and... →

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I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some... →

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I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and... →

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All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

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I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure could plot.

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I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

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I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

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I listen to Handel's vocal music, almost exclusively.

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So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

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The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.

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Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its... →

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The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me.... →

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