Italo Calvino Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: October 15, 1923 - September 19, 1985
Birthday: October 15
Death: September 19
New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for that reason I prefer its horror to this privileged beauty, its enslavement to the freedoms which remain local and privileged and very particularized, and which do not represent a genuine antithesis.
source: Italo Calvino (2014). “Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
topic: New York, America, Horror, Provinces, Privileged, Enslavement, Margins
