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You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey
Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously, these people could express themselves only with their friends or at the bar after two or three glasses of something, and they said every silliness, and people laughed. Now they have the possibility to show up on the internet. And so, on the internet, along with the messages of a lot of interesting and important people - even the Pope is writing on Twitter - we have a great quantity of idiots.
In order to write about life first you must live it.
People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.
But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.
I drink to make other people more interesting.
