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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

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. – Italo Calvino

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City Life, Cities
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Italo Calvino
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Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. – Italo Calvino

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Myths, Mythology
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Italo Calvino
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I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world. – Mindy Kaling

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In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like Gone With the Wind. And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but theres something so absolutely romantic about it. – Freida Pinto

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I dont think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list. – Gary Oldman

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You wont find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies dont speak to me. People dont come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think Im this dark, twisted, miserable person. – Naomi Watts

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