"It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices."

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Source : Italo Calvino (2012). “Under the Jaguar Sun”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Italo Calvino

#Voice Quotes #Ghost Quotes

“But to appear happy when I am so miserable â€” Oh! who can require it?”
“If I can convince others that there is a God and that they need to know Him, then I have done my job.”
“I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now .”
“Some jobs are just too hideous to contemplate,”
“You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.”
“Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.”
“In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative understandingâ€”in time, in space, in culture. For one cannot even really see one's own exterior and comprehend it as a whole, and no mirrors or photographs can help; our real exterior can be seen and understood only by other people, because they are located outside us in space, and because they are others.”
“Well first of all, for a criminal practice there has to be a gun. Itâ€™s pretty simple.”

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