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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 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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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

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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. – Charles Dudley Warner

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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. – Alan Bennett

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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. – John LeCarre

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The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. – Lord Chesterfield

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