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Italo Calvino Quotes

Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Thoughtful Seem Heavy Make Dull

We learn about MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech. Take that same speech and put it in the voice of a woman. Would it be as inspirational? Would it have as much gravitas to it?

Inspirational Woman Voice Learn Same

I've always been a pretty candid person. I'm not a very secretive person; I'm not a very discreet person. One of my best friends once described me as pathologically indiscreet.

Andrew Sullivan

Best Me Candid Friends Person Been

One of the biggest gaps in sports is the difference between the winning and losing teams of the Super Bowl. They don't invite the losing team to the White House. They don't have parades for them. They don't throw confetti on them.

Sports Losing Team Winning House

Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'

Identity Personal Who Am I Question

You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on.

You More Mean Liberal Get Candidate

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

Christopher Hitchens

Beautiful Choose Choice Difficult

You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar.

Colin Greenwood

Guitar You Would Like Approach

I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.

Beautiful Great Romantic People Wine

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

Men Me Wonder Tell Own Encourage

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

Man Skill Little Antiquity

Education isn't part of my agenda, it is my agenda.

Education Agenda Part

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

War Writing World World War II Era

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