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Say Quotes by Italo Calvino
- A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
- The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is…
- 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…
- Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
- 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…
- Why come to Trude? I asked myself. And I already wanted to leave. You cand resume your flight whereever you like," they say to me,…
- 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…
- every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act…
- There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a library…
- 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 write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when…
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