Carlo Lorenzini Quotes

• When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

  Carlo Lorenzini

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• Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.

  Carlo Lorenzini

• Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.

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• How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!

  Carlo Lorenzini

• How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.

  Carlo Lorenzini

• Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.

  Carlo Lorenzini

• At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader’s head. With a third, he landed on the stage.

  Carlo Lorenzini

• A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio’s nose.

  Carlo Lorenzini

• A boy’s appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.

  Carlo Lorenzini

Carlo Lorenzini (9)

Birth:	24th November, 1826
Death:	26th October, 1890
Nationality:	Italian
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Carlo Lorenzini was an Italian children's writer known for the world-renowned fairy tale novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio. During the Italian wars of Independence in 1848 and 1860 Collodi served as a volunteer with the Tuscan army. His active interest in political matters may be seen in his earliest literary works as well as in the founding of the satirical newspaper Il Lampione. This newspaper was censored by order of the Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1849 but re-emerged in May 1860.

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