English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Italo Calvino Quotes

But in vain I set out to visit the city: forced to remain motionless and always the same, in order to be more easily remembered, Zora has languished, disintegrated, disappeared. The earth has forgotten her.

Italo Calvino

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Fernando Flores quote: "I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external..."
I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances. Fernando Flores
My life is like a trunk stuffed with dirty laundry. It contains more than enough material to drive any one human being to mental aberration - maybe two or three people's worth? My sex life alone would do. It’s nothing I could talk about to anyone. No, I can’t go to a doctor. I have to solve this on my own. Haruki Murakami
Bill Pullman quote: "I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York."
I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York. Bill Pullman
Voltaire quote: "What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on..."
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on... Voltaire
Abbie Hoffman quote: "Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger."
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger. Abbie Hoffman
Pierre Corneille quote: "We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger."
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger. Pierre Corneille
Michael Pitt quote: "People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers."
People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers. Michael Pitt
Eden Ahbez quote: "I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of..."
I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies. Eden Ahbez
Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So get healthy friends. Mark Hyman
Dis love! Dat’s just whut’s got us uh pullin’ and haulin’ and sweatin’ and doin’ from can’t see in de mornin’ till can’t see at night." Nanny to Janie Zora Neale Hurston
Mikhail Baryshnikov quote: "People of art should never get married and have children,..."
People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience. Mikhail Baryshnikov
Charlie Simpson quote: "I wouldn't go back and change anything."
I wouldn't go back and change anything. Charlie Simpson
Even if Shaheed had been able to hear me, I could not then have told him what I later became convinced was the truth: that the purpose of that entire war had been to reunite me with an old life, to bring me back together with my old friends. Sam Manekshaw was marching on Dacca, to meet his old friend the Tiger; and the modes of connection lingered on, because on the field of leaking bone-marrow I heard about the exploits of knees, and was greeted by a dying pyramid of heads; and in Dacca I... Salman Rushdie
In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally. Saffron Burrows
I was ever a fighter, so---one fight more, The best and the last! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes and forbore, and bade me creep past. Robert Browning