"I write by hand, making many, many corrections.……" — Italo Calvino
"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 I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing."
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178 Quotes by Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino has 178 quotes on this site.
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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,…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually…
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The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as…
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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 Corrections Quotes
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Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
— Diane Ackerman
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The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we…
— John Stuart Mill
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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An…
— Victor Hugo
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Although prison officials have long battled illegal cellphones, smartphones have changed the game. With Internet access, a prisoner can call…
— Kim Severson
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Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make…
— Vince Lombardi
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(I'm not putting any of this well. I am not and never have been an intellectual. I am not articulate,…
— David Foster Wallace
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Commandments and covenants of God are like navigational instructions from celestial heights and will lead us safely to our eternal…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't…
— Bruce Nauman
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Approval is a greater motivator than disapproval, but we have to disapprove on occasion when we correct. It’s necessary. I…
— John Wooden
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Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost…
— Peter Lynch
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I can't recall ever once having seen the name of a market timer on Forbes' annual list of the richest…
— Peter Lynch
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The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown…
— Unknown Author
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