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Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

Italo Calvino

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Italo Calvino
Age: 62 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 15
Died: 1985
Died: September 19
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Journalist
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Santiago de Compostela de las Vegas
Italo Giovanni Calvino Mameli
Italo Giovanni Calvino
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Grease
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The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.
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There is no language without deceit.
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.
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Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing . . . out of which you can’t make anything.
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The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
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Falsehood is never in words it is in things.
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We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.
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At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it.
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If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.
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The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
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seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space
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I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
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A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.
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Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again.
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The soul is often in the surface, and the importance of 'depth' is overestimated.
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When I'm writing a book I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.
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It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible
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To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished.
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Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.
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