- Arouse
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- 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