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Italo Calvino has 179 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless…
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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the…
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The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced…
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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking…
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It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors,…
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The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result…
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The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.
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Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.
— Alton Brown
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Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.
— Julie Burchill
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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
— Italo Calvino
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
— Samuel Johnson
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I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most…
— Rich Mullins
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Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony…
— Theodore Parker
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
— Socrates
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
— Socrates
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Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.
— Charles Lamb
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Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
— John Dryden
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Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also…
— Gary Taubes
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