Truth Quote by Italo Calvino — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“What is more natural than that a solidity, a complicity, a bond should be established between Reader and Reader, thanks to the book?”

“I was living and dying in all the fibers of what is chewed and digested and in all the fibers that absorb the sun, consuming and digesting. Under the thatched arbor of a restaurant on a river-bank, where Olivia had waited for me, our teeth began to move slowly, with equal rhythm, and our eyes stared into each other's with the intensity of serpents'—serpents concentrated in the ecstasy of swallowing each other in turn, as we were aware, in our turn, of being swallowed by the serpent that digests us all, assimilated ceaselessly in the process of ingestion and digestion, in the universal cannibalism that leaves its imprint on every amorous relationship and erases the lines between our bodies and sopa de frijoles, huachinango a la vera cru-zana, and enchiladas.”

“It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.”

“Sections in the bookstore”

“In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.”

“Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.”

“I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and cinema verite as a cinema of lies that depends on the art of telling yourself lies. If you’re a good storyteller then the lie is more true than reality, and if you’re a bad one, the truth is worse than a half lie.”

“Lies don't end relationships the truth does.”

“The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.”

“You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.”