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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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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

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Travel
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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

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Exile
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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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Language
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In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators. – Joseph Barbera

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Romantic

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist. – John McGahern

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Romantic

My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet. – Salma Hayek

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Romantic

Im a romantic. – Tom Cruise

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The secret to humor is surprise. – Aristotle

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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. – James Matthew Barrie

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When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within. – C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

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The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe. – Charles Eastman

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