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" I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems. "
Italo Calvino
I Am
Literature
Work
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" 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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" In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman. "
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" For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist. "
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" A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway. "
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" Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession. "
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" If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories. "
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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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" Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me. "
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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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" I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature. "
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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. "
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" Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey. "
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I Am
" I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it. "
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Time
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" I suffer from everyday life. "
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" The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" One writes fables in periods of oppression. "
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" My university work was not central to my education. "
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Education
" An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything. "
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Anything
Own
" 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. "
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Character
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing. "
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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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" 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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" It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear. "
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