To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.

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• Italo Calvino:

  Folktales are real.

• Italo Calvino:

  I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same

• Italo Calvino:

  I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

• Italo Calvino:

  I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois.

• Italo Calvino:

  I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hen

• Italo Calvino:

  What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What i

• Italo Calvino:

  If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.

• Italo Calvino:

  I suffer from everyday life.

• Italo Calvino:

  Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

• Italo Calvino:

  When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can