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Italo Calvino Quotes

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Strong Generation Up Influences Grew

The first 20 years had such a profound effect on me, I spent the next 20 dealing with them.

Me Profound First Next Years Effect

You know those bumpers in the two lanes when you go bowling? I go out there with two of them, metaphorically, every day.

Andrea Riseborough

Day You Every Day Go Know Out

There is only one dream I can guarantee... my death.

Death Dream I Can Guarantee Only

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

Stephen Jay Gould

Process Evolution Expansion Constant

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

Music Myself Culture Mind Deep You

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

Trying You Outside Need Always Out

You know, when companies who have made a commitment and have legacy costs and all of a sudden want to walk away from that commitment and lay it on the federal government, that's a problem. It's a fiscal problem for us.

Commitment Walk Government Legacy Us

I want to inspire people to do whatever they desire in life.

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

Life People Inspire Desire Want

After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry.

Hate School Poetry Wilderness High

This sense in which so much of who we are doesn't break the surface - our knowability to one another is always something I like to explore.

Explore Always Break Something Sense

We need fuel diversity as far as the generation of electricity because you can only get so much natural gas through the pipelines.

Diversity Generation Electricity You

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

You Person Say Others More Him

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