Calasso Quotes

#1. Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today.

Charles Simic

#2. The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author.

Roberto Calasso

#3. Our time is so precious. You're holding out for someone who you really want to spend all your time with. Otherwise, there's no point to it.

Liz Tuccillo

#4. The gods are fugitive guests of literature.

Roberto Calasso

#5. Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.

Salman Rushdie

#6. It's not information overload. It's filter failure.

Clay Shirky

#7. We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is behind sacrifice. What you offer and what you destroy, it is that surplus which is life itself.

Roberto Calasso

#8. Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.

Roberto Calasso

#9. Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.

Roberto Calasso

#10. Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation.

Swami Vivekananda

#11. Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

Roberto Calasso

#12. Any shoe which protects your feet in a hard road is a beautiful shoe!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

Claudette Colbert

#14. The thunder kills the unhatched birds in their eggs.' 'Peg

Hannah Kent

#15. ardor which is tapas; the name Indra

Roberto Calasso

#16. As the Greeks see it, elegance arises from excavation, from the cavity.

Roberto Calasso

#17. Fancy meeting you here," Jasper said.
"That is such a tired villain line, Jasper, and you know it," said Call.

Cassandra Clare

#18. Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned

Roberto Calasso

#19. As Nassim Taleb, the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, writes, "Big data may mean more information, but it also means more false information." And even when the information is not false, the problem is "that the needle comes in an increasingly larger haystack.

Arianna Huffington

#20. Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not total brutes.

Roberto Calasso

#21. Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

Jodie Foster

#22. I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.

Gerald Stern

#23. Some primitive societies avoid striking out at the true guilty party because it might awaken the spirit of vengeance. Channeling violence toward a sacrificial victim as if toward a lightning rod doubtless stops violence, but it's not very pretty.

Rene Girard

#24. You shouldn't send an email from a computer that's associated with you if you don't want it to be tracked back to you. You don't want to hack the power plant from your house if you don't want them to follow the trail back and see your IP address.

Edward Snowden