Quote by Italo Calvino
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to l

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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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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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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If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. – Henry James

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I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic — I mean my motion. – Ezra Pound

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For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn. – Oscar Wilde

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