Quote by Italo Calvino
I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of

I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume. – Italo Calvino

Other quotes by Italo Calvino

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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Books
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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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Cats
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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 you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. – Eric Hoffer

By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression. – Dan Cruickshank

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. – Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. – Terry Eagleton

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