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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.

~Italo Calvino

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Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.

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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.

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Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

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Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

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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.

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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.

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Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.

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The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

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Folktales are real.

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Journalist

Born: October 15th, 1923

Died: September 19th, 1985

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