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" Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing. "
Italo Calvino
Morning
Myself
Today
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" In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. "
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" I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it. "
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" 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. "
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" Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness. "
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" 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? "
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" I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life. "
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" A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. "
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" 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. "
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" Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers. "
Italo Calvino
You
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Always
" Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. "
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Rather
Public
" I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois. "
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" Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself. "
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Best
" Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession. "
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Toward
" Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger. "
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Divide
Finger
" If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories. "
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Think
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" I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written. "
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Something
Afraid
Life
" I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion. "
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" New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city. "
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City
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" The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. "
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Race
Things
Human
" The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them. "
Italo Calvino
Loved
Experience
Chance
" 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. "
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World
My Own
Me
" Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write. "
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Try
" My university work was not central to my education. "
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" The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor. "
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" For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist. "
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" 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
Rules
Trying
Short
" In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman. "
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Woman
Abortion
Person
" Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences. "
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" Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature. "
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