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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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

Category:
Books
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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

Category:
Legacy
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Other Quotes from
Storytelling
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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

The best of the old stories spoke to the listener because they spoke not just to the ears but to the heart as well. – Jane Yolen

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Storytelling

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best – and therefore never scrutinize or question. – Stephen Jay Gould

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Storytelling

There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries…. – Umberto Eco

Category:
Storytelling

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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward. – Robert Collier

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Risk

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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gardening

Past tense means you used to be nervous. – Source Unknown

Category:
Stress

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought – at least by Americans – in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism. – Todd Gitlin

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Patriotism