"The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls."

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Source : Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Italo Calvino

#Past Quotes #Hands Quotes #Cities Quotes

“I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.”
“Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge.”

Source : Ford Madox Ford (2012). “Parade's End”, p.77, Vintage
“I know who made the environment and he's coming back and going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV.”
“We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.”
“One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.”

Source : "Sold, for two truckloads of oranges" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.
“One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.”
“Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.”

Source : How to Be an Alien (1946)
“I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side”

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