"It is not the voice that commands the…" — Italo Calvino
"It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear."
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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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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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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than…
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
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People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.
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