"I will start out this evening with an……" — Italo Calvino

"I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains."

— Italo Calvino

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178 Quotes by Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino has 178 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances,…
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born.…
The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he…
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's…
It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually…
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as…
The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same…

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More Assertion Quotes

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Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he… — Laozi
I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever… — Kirk Cameron
Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority. — Oscar Wilde
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or… — Oscar Wilde
One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part. — Randolph Bourne
The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd! — Adolf Hitler
Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One… — Ayn Rand
Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this… — George Santayana
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable… — Philip Zimbardo
Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the… — Charles Spurgeon

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