Along Quote by Italo Calvino Download Open image “Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.” — Italo Calvino ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Along Books Indirection Literature Literature Moves Marginal Marginal Literature Moves Politics Politics Marginal
“Political activists rarely like fiction of any kind. Literature is about ambiguity, mixed emotions, and guilty pleasures. Politics is about ideals and action.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Is literature better, is politics better, for having discarded the moralist and the philosopher?” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Literature is a far more ancient and viable thing than any social formation or state. And just as the state interferes in literature, literature… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“(one would say yes, if not every day, at least fairly regularly), whether only for yourself or also for others (often only for yourself,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The Great Khan tried to concentrate on the game: but now it was the game’s reason that eluded him. The end of every game… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Or else you can say, like the camel driver who took me there: "I arrived here in my first youth, one morning, many people… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The naked man had lost hope now; he would never be able to return to the earth's surface;he would never leave the bottom of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of it; but… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I ask you to come down to earth," said the Baron in a calm, rather faint voice, "and to take up the duties of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“... KUBLAI: We have proved that if we were here, we would not be. POLO: And here, in fact, we are.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“And yet, in Raissa, at every moment there is a child in a window who laughs seeing a dog that has jumped on a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Ludmilla, now you are being read. Your body is being subjected to a systematic reading, through channels of tactile information, visual, olfactory, and not… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Once the process of falsification is set in motion, it won't stop. We're in a country where everything that can be falsified has been… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Your case gives me new hope," I said to him. "With me, more and more often I happen to pick up a novel that… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
Governments follow their people. A great deal has to do with the vision of the leadership of governments. They have a vision, and they… — Salman Khurshid Copy Share Image
I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which… — Gil Gerard Copy Share Image
Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Along with a livable wage, many parents are desperate for quality affordable child care. — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
It would have been an interesting run if we hadn't gotten along! It was good casting, I suppose. — Dominic West Copy Share Image
Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other… — Peter Orszag Copy Share Image
Just remember: to be grateful and thank the people who are there and support you along the way is a great start to success. — Meryl Davis Copy Share Image
We feel that, with Sidney, we have a great opportunity over the next few years to put a great team on the ice. We're… — Mario Lemieux Copy Share Image
“Being along with the Nature your soul is stronger than all disasters.” — Esat Durak Copy Share Image
