Italian - Journalist | October 15, 1923 - September 19, 1985
In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.
Italo Calvino
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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
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Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.
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A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.
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A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.
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It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.
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An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything.
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
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How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan.
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I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.
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Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.
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Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.
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