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New Quotes by Italo Calvino
- The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their…
- I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there…
- Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices,…
- This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences…
- You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
- Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you…
- So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and not, instead, the…
- You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the…
- New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for…
- You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more…
- Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you need…
- what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually…
- New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.
- I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is…
More New Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. — Julian Assange
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Research is creating new knowledge. — Neil Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find… — David Attenborough
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin