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Italo Calvino (Writer)

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.
— Italo Calvino love
In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.
— Italo Calvino man
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.
— Italo Calvino world
It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.
— Italo Calvino man
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.
— Italo Calvino change
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.
— Italo Calvino books
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
— Italo Calvino book
A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.
— Italo Calvino work
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
— Italo Calvino living
Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.
— Italo Calvino art
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.
— Italo Calvino love
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
— Italo Calvino love
I suffer from everyday life.
— Italo Calvino life
Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.
— Italo Calvino light
An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything.
— Italo Calvino birth
The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
— Italo Calvino light
A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.
— Italo Calvino reading
Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.
— Italo Calvino literature
I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.
— Italo Calvino cat
The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.
— Italo Calvino self
Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.
— Italo Calvino books
Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.
— Italo Calvino writing
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.
— Italo Calvino writing
What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?
— Italo Calvino art
When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.
— Italo Calvino writing

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