“A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love....”
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Italo Calvino (Santiago de Las Vegas de La Habana, 15 ottobre 1923 – Siena, 19 settembre 1985) è stato uno scrittore e paroliere italiano. Intellettuale di grande impegno politico, civile e culturale, è stato uno dei narratori italiani più importanti del secondo Novecento. I numerosi campi d'interesse toccati dal suo percorso letterario sono meditati e raccontati attraverso capolavori quali la trilogia de *I nostri antenati, Marcovaldo, Le cosmicomiche, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore,* uniti dal filo conduttore della riflessione sulla storia e la società contemporanea. ---------- Italo Calvino (Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the *Our Ancestors* trilogy (1952–1959), the *Cosmicomics* collection of short stories (1965), and the novels *Invisible Cities* (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). Lionised in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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“A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love....”
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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 write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing.”
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“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 bec...”
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“I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.”
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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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“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 s...”
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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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“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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“I suffer from everyday life.”
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“One writes fables in periods of oppression.”
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“Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.”
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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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“Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would writ...”
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“I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.”
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“Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.”
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“The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.”
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“In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.”
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“I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway.”
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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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