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" 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
My Own
Me
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" The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts. "
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" I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway. "
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Never
Hemingway
" Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me. "
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" I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois. "
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Bourgeois
Guy
" Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end. "
Italo Calvino
Beginning
Believe
End
" Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing. "
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Morning
Myself
Today
" My university work was not central to my education. "
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University
Work
Education
" In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman. "
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Woman
Abortion
Person
" I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party. "
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Political Party
Party
" A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. "
Italo Calvino
Book
Sense
Reading
" I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon. "
Italo Calvino
Morning
Writing
Sleep
" Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior. "
Italo Calvino
Parents
Behavior
Animal
" 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
Modern Art
Modern
" In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. "
Italo Calvino
Matter
Precision
Love
" In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system. "
Italo Calvino
Universe
Character
Science
" The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. "
Italo Calvino
Race
Things
Human
" What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. "
Italo Calvino
Road
Romantic
Talent
" One writes fables in periods of oppression. "
Italo Calvino
Writes
Fables
Oppression
" For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist. "
Italo Calvino
Exist
Critic
Certain
" Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection. "
Italo Calvino
Politics
Moves
Literature
" 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
Start
Like
I Am
" My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature. "
Italo Calvino
Beginning
End
Place
" I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause. "
Italo Calvino
Convinced
Dedicated
Communist
" I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works. "
Italo Calvino
Much
Like
Head
" Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger. "
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Write
Divide
Finger
" It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear. "
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Ear
Voice
Story
" Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature. "
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Different
Only
Literature
" I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year. "
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Days
Most
Reading
" The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself. "
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More
Myself
Writer
" I suffer from everyday life. "
Italo Calvino
Life
Everyday Life
Everyday