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Italo Calvino Quotes

I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: italian
Birth: October 15, 1923 - September 19, 1985

Topics

Life Good Good Life You Abortion

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

People Say Always Used Southern IQ

Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.

Voice Write Head Because Get Who

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.

Done Nothing Demand Popular

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

Simon Greenleaf

Truth Science Religion Simplicity

Outside of a few national security issues like treason that the Constitution lays out, we don't need federal crimes, and we don't need federal prisons. We need state crimes and state prisons.

Constitution Security Outside Need

I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art.

Art Criticism Conviction Film I Came

My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the emergence of creative thought when we read but also the development and strengthening of capacities like empathy and critical analysis that we can apply to the rest of our lives.

Work Creative Empathy Rest Reading

I can't really picture a time when she won't be on tour with me. Mom has always been my best friend. But, yes, eventually she might get sick of it.

Mikaela Shiffrin

Friend Time Best Me Mom Sick

It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.

Jasmine Guinness

Money Charity Events Wasted Some

I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.

Dick Van Patten

Child Actor Radio Left Us Many

For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.

Work Business Day Cool Drive Energy

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

Truth Intelligence Man Wise Mind

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