What did Italo Calvino mean by: I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains. - Italo Calvino Writer · Italy Copy
+ Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Italo Calvino, Lying, Novelists, Pieces, 0 - Italo Calvino Writer · Italy
+ Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Italo Calvino, Cities, Memories, 0 - Italo Calvino Writer · Italy
+ The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Italo Calvino, Cities, Hands, Past, 0 - Italo Calvino Writer · Italy
+ The soul is often in the surface, and the importance of ‘depth’ is overestimated. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Italo Calvino, Depth, Design, Soul, 0 - Italo Calvino Writer · Italy
+ At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Italo Calvino, Deny, Increase, Mirrors, 0 - Italo Calvino Writer · Italy
+ A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. Feraz Zeid, October 18, 2023December 29, 2023, Italo Calvino, Book, Classic, 0 - Italo Calvino Writer · Italy
+ The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Italo Calvino, Animal, Cat, 0 - Italo Calvino Writer · Italy
+ Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Italo Calvino, Irony, Police, 0 - Italo Calvino Writer · Italy
Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art. - Maurice Sendak Illustrator
There’s no dew left on the daisies and clover; there’s no rain left in heaven. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
During a warm winter rain … the basins of her collarbones collected water. - Jeffrey Eugenides Author
People will try to rain on your parade because they have no parade of their own. - Jeffrey Gitomer Author
I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy. - Jennifer Connelly
