Italo Calvino's Quote - A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to

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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. – Italo Calvino

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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. – Italo Calvino

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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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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than ones mothers womb. – Italo Calvino

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The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. – Washington Irving

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There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marxs Capital. – W. E. B. Du Bois

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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one. – Chinese Saying

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God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius. – Anna Pavlova

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The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government – from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration – could fill committee agendas for years. – Tom Coburn

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One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. – Mrs. Humphrey Ward

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If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area. – Jason Segel

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