"What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?"

--

Source : Italo Calvino (2012). “If on a winter's night a traveler”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

#Library Quotes #Harbors Quotes

“I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.”
“That's what's wrong with the people in this world; they believe they can do well by just getting by when they need to aim for the highest.”
“Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the centre of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. 'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.”
“There are three states of legality in Irish law. There is all this stuff which comes under That's grand, then it moves into Ah now don't push it, and finally it comes under Right now you're takin the piss, and that's when the police come in.”
“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.”
“Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.”
“The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.”
“When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!”

You may also like:

Alberto Moravia
Novelist
Cesare Pavese
Poet
Eugenio Montale
Poet
Franz Kafka
Writer
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer
Luigi Pirandello
Dramatist
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Film director
Umberto Eco
Essayist
Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist