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" Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end. "
Italo Calvino
Beginning
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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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" My university work was not central to my education. "
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" Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. "
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" The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. "
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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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" Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I suffer from everyday 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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" 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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" The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts. "
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Our
Walls
" I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life. "
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" I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists. "
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" In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman. "
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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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" 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. "
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" One writes fables in periods of oppression. "
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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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" 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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" A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal. "
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" For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist. "
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" I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois. "
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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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