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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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Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about,…
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Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The…
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Rereading, we find a new book.
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Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come;…
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The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love…
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A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.
— Italo Calvino
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I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a…
— Joan Didion
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We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor…
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The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
— Vince Vaughn
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Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.
— Stephen Vizinczey
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Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the…
— R. A. Lafferty
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I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination.…
— Sheryl Sandberg
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