- Noise
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- 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