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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

Other quotes by Italo Calvino

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. – Italo Calvino

Category:
Myths, Mythology
Author
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

Category:
Cats
Author
Italo Calvino
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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. – Italo Calvino

Category:
Knowledge
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Italo Calvino
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Other Quotes from
Storytelling
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Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story — a story that is basically without meaning or pattern. – Eric Hoffer

Category:
Storytelling

If you dont know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you dont know the stories you may be lost in life. – Anon.

Category:
Storytelling

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. – Rudyard Kipling

Category:
Storytelling

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. – Willa Cather

Category:
Storytelling

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For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be. – Origen

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I grew up on the golden age of childrens TV. – Edward Norton

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Age

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. – Lord Acton, letter to Mary Gladstone, 24 April 1881

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Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes. – Benjamin Franklin, letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789 November 13th

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