"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."

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Source : Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Italo Calvino

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“I don't have bad relationships with my players. But I don't get into long conversations with them either.”
“The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears.”

Source : Rick Bass (1997). “The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am." His thumb stroked her cheek. "I would never hurt you." "I don't think you can promise me that." She squeezed his bruised fingers. "But it makes things a bit more equal, to know that I can hurt you, too." His gaze fell to her lips. He said simply, without any trace of irony, "You are killing me.”
“I want a trouble-maker for a lover, Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, Who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, Who burns like fire on the rushing sea.”
“The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God's people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.”
“Geoffrey [Boycott] is the only fellow I've ever met who fell in love with himself at a young age and has remained faithful ever since”
“I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.”
“American people, what about the American people? I think the president delights in the fact that they have been roofied by technology and pop culture. They're not conscious to any expansion of power, which is why they're happy to exist in this dependant decline.”

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