Quotes by Calvino, Italo

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the co >>

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to r >>

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, l >>

Quotations about Sarcasm

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover eve >>

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, whic >>

What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the >>

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.

Calvino, Italo