"Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and…" — Italo Calvino
"Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy."
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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 Dull Quotes
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The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.
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Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance,…
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as…
— Tallulah Bankhead
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Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you…
— William Bernbach
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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
— Aphra Behn
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With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I…
— Chris Brown
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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
— Pearl S. Buck
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To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
— Charles Bukowski
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that…
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The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
— Sid Caesar
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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