Quote by Italo Calvino
Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, ar

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. – Italo Calvino

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The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. – Italo Calvino

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Books
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The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city. – Italo Calvino

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Cats
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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

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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. – Hilaire Belloc

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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldnt be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink. – Catherine Drinker Bowen

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The only thing you take with you when youre gone is what you leave behind. – John Allston

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Every man – P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

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