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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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When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign — a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they dont want to hear the word mentioned. – Italo Calvino

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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

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Legacy
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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. – Italo Calvino

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I believe that when youre in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner… or why bother? So in that sense Im an incurable romantic when it comes to men. – Cameron Diaz

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Im always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though. – David Duchovny

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The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny. – Hugh Grant

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Im not about to talk about whats romantic in my life – I figure if you talk about it once – then thats an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further. – James Van Der Beek

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