Italian - Journalist | October 15, 1923 - September 19, 1985
I suffer from everyday life.
Italo Calvino
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Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.
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I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.
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A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.
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Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.
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Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.
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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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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. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.
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Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.
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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 nose, taking shortcuts.
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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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