Quotes by Italo Calvino, Six Memos For The Next Millennium

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what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a — Italo Calvino, Six Memos For The Next Millennium
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses. — Italo Calvino, Six Memos For The Next Millennium
In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all commu — Italo Calvino, Six Memos For The Next Millennium
I think that my first impulse arises from a hypersensitivity or allergy. It seems to me that language is always used in — Italo Calvino, Six Memos For The Next Millennium
Overambitious projects may be objectionable in many fields, but not in literature. Literature remains alive only if we s — Italo Calvino, Six Memos For The Next Millennium
It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty - that is, the use — Italo Calvino, Six Memos For The Next Millennium
The real protagonist of the story, however, is the magic ring, because it is the movements of the ring that determine th — Italo Calvino, Six Memos For The Next Millennium
The proper use of language, for me personally, is one that enables us to approach things (present or absent) with discre — Italo Calvino, Six Memos For The Next Millennium
I'm accustomed to thinking of literature as a search for knowledge; in order to move onto existential terrain I need to — Italo Calvino, Six Memos For The Next Millennium