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Quote by Italo Calvino
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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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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Romantic
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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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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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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. – Elbert Hubbard

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Books

The title of a book fills the place of the face in a human being. – Gustav Boehm, “A Discourse on Title Page Composition,” in The Inland Printer (Ch

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Books

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. – Clifton Fadiman

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Books

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. – George Robert Gissing

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Books

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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. – Ben Stein

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Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions. – Joseph Chatfield

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Speeches

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor. – E. B. White

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Humor

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

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