Italo Calvino Quotes

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

- Italo Calvino

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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

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. - Italo Calvino

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. - Italo Calvino