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- Oppression
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- Nov 07, 2020
One writes fables in periods of oppression.
- Fabulous
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.
- Genuine
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- Nov 07, 2020
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them.
- Classic
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- Nov 07, 2020
A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.
- Noise
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- Nov 07, 2020
A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.
- Nails
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.
- Catalogue
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ear
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
- Cloud
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gaining
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hierarchy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon.
- Possession
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.
- Arouse
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.
- Encourages
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- Nov 07, 2020
Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
Folktales are real.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.
- Everyday Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suffer from everyday life.
- Does
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.
- Nov 07, 2020
I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My university work was not central to my education.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020