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" I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature. "
Italo Calvino
Role
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Literature
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" I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois. "
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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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" Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection. "
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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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" A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Always
" I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality. "
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Today
" Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself. "
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" I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running. "
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Two
Never
Believe
" I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah! "
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" What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. "
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" I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause. "
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Dedicated
Communist
" Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them. "
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Know
Find
Unexpected
" 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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Noise
Present
Work
" A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. "
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" For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist. "
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Exist
Critic
Certain
" 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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Like
I Am
" The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. "
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Race
Things
Human
" Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy. "
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Heavy
Make
" I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it. "
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Feel
Write
I Feel
" 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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Logic
City
" Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences. "
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Generation
Strong
" 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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Born
" 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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" The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts. "
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Walls
" I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway. "
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Never
Hemingway
" 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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Image
Born