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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

Other quotes by Italo Calvino

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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The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. – Italo Calvino

Category:
Exile
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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
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Italo Calvino
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Other Quotes from
Romantic
category

I dont know if its a romantic comedy but Im in the beginning of the first of the season of The West Wing. We shot it last year. I dont know. If anyone asks me to be in one, Ill jump on it. – Jason Isaacs

Category:
Romantic

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man. – Gene Tierney

Category:
Romantic

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, Id done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldnt read it. – Buchi Emecheta

Category:
Romantic

I enjoy doing romantic stories. Ive done a lot of them. – Joe Lando

Category:
Romantic

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wedding

The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment. – Gary Bauer

Category:
Society

The secret of life is to have no fear its the only way to function. – Stokely Carmichael

Category:
Fear

I realized that its all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba. – Carlos Santana

Category:
Forgiveness