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Quote by Italo Calvino
When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attent

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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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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Knowledge
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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

Category:
City Life, Cities
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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

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Cats
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Italo Calvino
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God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. – W.E. Channing

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Books

No doubt most of you think biography dull reading. You would much rather sit down with a good story. But have you ever thought what a story is? It is nothing but a bit of make-believe biography. – Burton E. Stevenson, A Guide to Biography for Young Readers: American — Me

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Books

A good book has no ending. – R.D. Cumming

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Books

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. – John Ruskin

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Books

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This lifes dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye. – William Blake

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America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. – Gloria Steinem

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America

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. – Benito Mussolini

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I like a women whos got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, thats fine. – James Hetfield

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