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Quote by Italo Calvino
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. – Italo Calvino

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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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Legacy
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When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign — a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they dont want to hear the word mentioned. – Italo Calvino

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble. – Caesar Augustus

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I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage. – Alan Brien

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved. – Johnny Carson

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. – John Ciardi

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