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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

Other quotes by Italo Calvino

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
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Italo Calvino
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. – Italo Calvino

Category:
Travel
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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

Category:
Modern, Modernism
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Italo Calvino
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Other Quotes from
Storytelling
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Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle. – Robert Olen Butler

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Storytelling

The child began reading favorite stories of magic to the river, believing the tales would be carried to someone in need. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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Storytelling

I will open my mouth in a parable
I will utter dark sayings of old.
Things that we have heard and known,
that our fathers told us.
We will not hide them from their children,
but tell it to the coming generations. – Bible

Category:
Storytelling

Stories differ from advice in that, once you get them, they become a fabric of your whole soul. That is why they heal you. – Alice Walker

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Storytelling

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I just wish my mouth had a backspace key. – Author Unknown

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This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant. – Donny Osmond

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Home

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. – Bertrand Russell

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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts — for support rather than for illumination. – Andrew Lang

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Statistics