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I've been in love for five hundred million years ...
— Italo Calvino
Readers are my vampires.
— Italo Calvino
Every time I must find something to do that will look like something a little beyond my capabilities.
— Italo Calvino
I felt cheated and I decided to demand justice of the sultan.
— Italo Calvino
Fantasy is a place where it rains.
— Italo Calvino
Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.
— Italo Calvino
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
I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!
— Italo Calvino
I'm beginning to read Italo Calvino's new novel!
— Italo Calvino
Your labor which gives form to desire takes from desire its form, and you believe you are enjoying Anastasia wholly when you are only its slave.
— Italo Calvino
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
— Italo Calvino
I read, therefore it writes
— Italo Calvino
A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.
— Italo Calvino
I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.
— Italo Calvino
I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.
— Italo Calvino
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, I read, therefore it writes.
— Italo Calvino
A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.
— Italo Calvino
Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
— Italo Calvino
Leave me like this. I have come full circle and I understand. The world must be read backward. All is clear.
— Italo Calvino
Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.
— Italo Calvino
I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.
— Italo Calvino
In general confusion youth recognizes itself and rejoices.
— Italo Calvino
One writes fables in periods of oppression.
— Italo Calvino
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
— Italo Calvino
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
— Italo Calvino
One reads alone, even in another's presence.
— Italo Calvino
Yell: "I'm beginning to read Italo Calvino's new novel!" Or if you prefer, don't say anything; just hope they'll leave you alone.
— Italo Calvino
There is still, in fact, in Calvino's archive a drawer full of newspaper cuttings concerning scientific discoveries. As
— Italo Calvino
Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young. - Italo Calvino
— Kevin Brockmeier
Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.
— Italo Calvino
An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything.
— Italo Calvino
How? Well, if a girl has had enough of every man who exists, her only remaining desire could be for a man who doesn't exist at all ...
— Italo Calvino
We all have a secret wound which we are fighting to avenge.
— Italo Calvino
It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
— Italo Calvino
Maybe you have to become a mother to get to the real sense of everything. Or a prostitute.
— Italo Calvino
It was the love which the hunter has for living things, and which he can only express by aiming his gun at them ...
— Italo Calvino
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
Amusement has always been the great moving force behind culture.
— Italo Calvino
And I see the houses of the human race perched on the edge of the sea, shipwrecked in their false neighborliness.
— Italo Calvino
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible
— Italo Calvino
There is no language without deceit.
— Italo Calvino
For the man who thought he was Man there is no salvation.
— Italo Calvino
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
— Italo Calvino
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
— Italo Calvino
The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.
— Italo Calvino
I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.
— Italo Calvino
A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.
— Italo Calvino
The only truth I can write is that of the instant I am living.
— Italo Calvino
If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.
— Italo Calvino
Reading is solitude.
— Italo Calvino
Perhaps, Kublai thought, the empire is nothing but a zodiac of the mind's phantasms.
— Italo Calvino
And Polo answers, Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities ...
— Italo Calvino
Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.
— Italo Calvino
The fact is that I find in the day's light, in this diffused, pale, almost shadowless luminosity, a darkness deeper than the night's.
— Italo Calvino
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
— Italo Calvino
Today each of you is the object of the other's reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.
— Italo Calvino
Decide for yourself. Everybody reacts in a different way.
— Italo Calvino
Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.
— Italo Calvino
The city does not consist of this, but of relationships between the measurements of its space and the events of its past:
— Italo Calvino
This is what I wanted to hear from you: confess what you are smuggling: moods, states of grace, elegies!
— Italo Calvino
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
The world is so complicated, tangled, and overloaded that to see into it with any clarity you must prune and prune. In
— Italo Calvino
I suffer from everyday life.
— Italo Calvino
If this is what you believe, you are wrong: Penthesilea
— Italo Calvino
Desires are already memories.
— Italo Calvino
Hey live for each other; their eyes are interlocked but there is not love between them.
— Italo Calvino
A poor writer is one who names rather than represents.
— Italo Calvino
I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.
— Italo Calvino
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
— Italo Calvino
All this is like a dream which the word bears within itself and which, passing through him who writes, is freed and frees him.
— Italo Calvino
Now, the old man happened to be the Lord.
— Italo Calvino
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?
— Italo Calvino
Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.
— Italo Calvino
It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.
— Italo Calvino
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
— Italo Calvino
I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer ... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.
— Italo Calvino
In the morning you wake from one bad dream and another begins.
— Italo Calvino
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KUBLAI: We have proved that if we were here, we would not be.
POLO: And here, in fact, we are. — Italo Calvino
KUBLAI: We have proved that if we were here, we would not be.
POLO: And here, in fact, we are. — Italo Calvino
No one, wise Kublai, knows better than you that the city must never be confused with the words that describe it.
— Italo Calvino
Will I ever be able to say, "Today it writes," just like "Today it rains," "Today it is windy"?
— Italo Calvino
How well I would write if I were not here!
— Italo Calvino