Venice was always one step removed from what was going on. If you were in Turin or in Milan or one of the industrial centers, you would have had a much more active political constituency. Venice essentially lived for itself. Joseph Kanon
Motivational, Inspirational, Funny Quotes
![Having written about a place that was utterly destroyed, it struck me as interesting to look at a place that had come through the war almost literally unscathed, ... I thought, 'And yet and yet and yet ... Does any place [really] come out unscathed?' - Joseph Kanon Quotes](/pic/img/img.php?text=SGF2aW5nIHdyaXR0ZW4gYWJvdXQgYSBwbGFjZSB0aGF0IHdhcyB1dHRlcmx5IGRlc3Ryb3llZCwgaXQgc3RydWNrIG1lIGFzIGludGVyZXN0aW5nIHRvIGxvb2sgYXQgYSBwbGFjZSB0aGF0IGhhZCBjb21lIHRocm91Z2ggdGhlIHdhciBhbG1vc3QgbGl0ZXJhbGx5IHVuc2NhdGhlZCwgLi4uIEkgdGhvdWdodCwgJ0FuZCB5ZXQgYW5kIHlldCBhbmQgeWV0IC4uLiBEb2VzIGFueSBwbGFjZSBbcmVhbGx5XSBjb21lIG91dCB1bnNjYXRoZWQ/JyA=&author=ICBKb3NlcGggS2Fub24gICAg&num=6 "Having written about a place that was utterly destroyed, it struck me as interesting to look at a place that had come through the war almost literally unscathed, ... I thought, 'And yet and yet and yet ... Does any place [really] come out unscathed?' - Joseph Kanon Quotes")
