Mario Monicelli's Profile
Brief about Mario Monicelli: By info that we know Mario Monicelli was born at 1915-05-16. And also Mario Monicelli is Italian Director.
Some Mario Monicelli's quotes. Goto "Mario Monicelli's quotation" section for more.A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.
Tags: Bitter, Comedy, SometimesI always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.
Tags: Fail, Group, MeansDeath doesn't frighten me, it bothers me. It bothers me for example that someone can be there tomorrow but me I am no longer there. What bothers me is no longer being alive, not being dead.
Tags: Death, Someone, TomorrowThe themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.
Tags: Age, Death, LaughUnfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.
Tags: Thought, True, WiseA number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.
Tags: Number, School, SometimesI have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.
Tags: Expected, Judge, ReasonablyOn the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.
Tags: Church, Conscience, OthersSome of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time.
Tags: Night, Often, TimeThe day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me.
Tags: ReceivedThe manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.
Tags: Another, Business, CandlesThe only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little.
Tags: However, Mind, RecreationAll around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
Tags: Experience, Knowledge, ReligionBefore I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.
Tags: Far, Rich, UsedGreat dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.
Tags: Book, Faith, GreatI have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.
Tags: Great, Him, StressI must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.
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