“How many years has it been since I could abandon myself to a book written by another, with no relation to what I must write myself?”

From IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELLER by Italo Calvino.

Image above is a screen grab showing one of Calvino's mad manuscripts, from a great 1985 interview conducted with him on the BBC's Bookmark show.

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“Without a collectivist economy to take away money's privilege... political liberalism would be a farce.”

— Albert Camus

Tell me this isn't directed at the U.S. Democratic Party from the grave.

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“The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of a people's youth.”

— E.M.Cioran, The Temptation to Exist

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“When the cat shit gets bigger than the cat, get rid of the cat.” — Some douchey studio executive

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“Write the good bit. Seriously. Just write it. That bit that you want to write, that you’re saving up? Write it. It’s the most important moment in the book, isn’t it? So write it, and bend the rest of the book towards it, rather than retrofitting it to what you come up with along the way that’s less important.” — Nick Harkaway

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