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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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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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than ones mothers womb. – 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

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

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Stories give color to black and white information. – Todd Stocker

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