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Much Quotes by Italo Calvino
- When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But…
- If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.
- The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person who thinks that…
- A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.
- ...and every Wednesday the perfumed young lady slips me a hundred-crown note to leave her alone with the convict. And by Thursday the hundred crowns…
- Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you…
- Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.
- I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life…
- I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway.
- How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to…
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