Quote by Italo Calvino
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. - Ital

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

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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

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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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