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

Other quotes by Italo Calvino

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following ones nose, taking shortcuts. – Italo Calvino

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The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. – Italo Calvino

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Exile
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Other Quotes from
City Life, Cities
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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved. – Johnny Carson

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. About Paris – Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

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

Ive been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this: If youve seen one city slum youve seen them all. – Spiro T. Agnew

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Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldnt handle the travel. Im a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasnt working for me. So I stopped. – Rick Moranis

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