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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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I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.
— Orlando Bloom
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Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates…
— Khalil Gibran
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I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
— Gene Kelly
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May we all co-operate and join this war on pirates,
— Jackie Chan
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I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.
— Anthony Michael Hall
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I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.
— Todd Barry
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The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that…
— John Pilger
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Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.
— Lawrence Lessig
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Pirates have always fascinated me.
— Tanith Lee
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We are all pirates at heart. There is not one of us who hasn't had a little larceny in his soul. And…
— Roger Caras
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But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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