“I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.”Norman Lewis
“A year ago we liberated them from the Fascist Monster, and they still sit doing their best to smile politely at us, as hungry as ever, more disease-ridden than ever before, in the ruins of their beautiful city where law and order have ceased to exist. And what is the prize that is to be eventually won? The rebirth of democracy. The glorious prospect of being able one day to choose their rulers from a list of powerful men, most of whose corruptions are generally known and accepted with weary resignation. The days of Benito Mussolini must seem like a lost paradise compared with this.”Norman Lewis book Naples '44Naples '44
“A problem has arisen. Although I handed in my army rations to the cook, with the intention of living on these, nobody has taken me seriously, nor believed that any human being in his right mind and able to eat pasta would refrain from doing so.”Norman Lewis book Naples '44Naples '44
“The Italians of the South live, just as Africans do, on bread dipped in olive oil.”Norman Lewis book Naples '44Naples '44