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Stories Quotes by Italo Calvino
- It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
- Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to…
- I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from…
- The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
- My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly…
- 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…
- I speak and speak,” Marco says, “but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. The description of the world to which you lend…
- Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.
- My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.
- If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.
- How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to…
- Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.
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