Italo Calvino Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Italo Calvino quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased journalist born on Oct 15, 1923). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 74 we have for him.
“Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.”
“A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.”
“In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.”
“I suffer from everyday life.”
“The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.”
“A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.”
“Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.”
“The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.”
“I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.”
“The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.”
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