Italo Calvino - The Baron in the Trees (1957)

3 Sourced Quotes

View all Italo Calvino Quotes

He was carried away by that mania of the storyteller, who never knows which stories are more beautiful—the ones that really happened and the evocation of which recalls a whole flow of hours past, of petty emotions, boredom, happiness, insecurity, vanity, and self-disgust, or those which are invented, and in which he cuts out a main pattern, and everything seems easy, then begins to vary it as he realizes more and more that he is describing again things that had happened or been understood in lived reality.

Italo Calvino

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.

Italo Calvino

The gaze of dogs who don't understand and who don't know that they may be right not to understand.

Italo Calvino