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Other Quotes by Italo Calvino
- What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
- The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.
- In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogenous surface, the…
- A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments…
- A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part…
- The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there.
- You have with you the book you were reading in the cafe, which you are eager to continue, so that you can then hand it…
- If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is…
- The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a…
- ...the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take…
- Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will…
- For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave.…
- Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into dreams or 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…
- I had fallen in love. What I mean is: I had begun to recognize, to isolate the signs of one of those from the others,…
- What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure…
- In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions,…
- Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak…
- They knew each other. He knew her and so himself, for in truth he had never known himself. And she knew him and so herself,…
- Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.
- Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential,…
- I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour