Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvinowas an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy, the Cosmicomics collection of short stories, and the novels Invisible Citiesand If on a winter's night a traveler...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth15 October 1923
CountryItaly
beer cells smell
...and every Wednesday the perfumed young lady slips me a hundred-crown note to leave her alone with the convict. And by Thursday the hundred crowns are already gone in so much beer. And when the visiting hour is over, the young lady comes out with the stink of jail in her elegant clothes; and the prisoner goes back to his cell with the lady's perfume in his jailbird's suit. And I'm left with the smell of beer. Life is nothing but trading smells.
littles looks capability
Every time I must find something to do that will look like something a little beyond my capabilities.
littles looks capability
Every time I must find something to do that will look like something a little beyond my capabilities.
kissing flavor taste
If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him.
rain evening fantasy
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
mirrors deny increase
At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it.
design soul depth
The soul is often in the surface, and the importance of 'depth' is overestimated.