Quote by Italo Calvino
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration i

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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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

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Legacy
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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 city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city. – Italo Calvino

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Cats
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Im a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind. – Leelee Sobieski

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Romantic

It more or less has the shape of a love song, but Crescent Moon reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition. – Frank Black

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I got a degree in sociology, didnt read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it. – Andre Dubus III

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Romantic

I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. Id love to do a romantic comedy, and Id love to do some period pieces with classical text. Id love somebody to cast me as Macbeth, but for a film. I just want to be all over the place. – Kevin Alejandro

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Censorship is saying: Im the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine. But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper. – Ai Weiwei

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If you dont want to do something, one excuse is as good as another. – Yiddish Proverb

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