"New York is a fabled city, a fabulous…" — Italo Calvino

New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city. - Italo Calvino

"New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city."

— 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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one… — Paul Auster
In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were… — Karen Armstrong
I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild… — Margaret Atwood
On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million… — Diane Ackerman
There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence.… — Michelle Bachelet
London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's… — David Bailey
My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need… — Cleveland Abbe
I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that… — Alec Baldwin
What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got… — Christian Bale
I would love to do a television show in New York City. — Ellen Barkin
I love New York City; I've got a gun. — Charles Barkley

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