Italo Calvino Quote

New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for that reason I prefer its horror to this privileged beauty, its enslavement to the freedoms which remain local and privileged and very particularized, and which do not represent a genuine antithesis.

Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) - ISBN: 9780544146693

New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for that reason I prefer its...

New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for that reason I prefer its...

New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for that reason I prefer its...

New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for that reason I prefer its...