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but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.
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Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
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Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.
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There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries.
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The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.
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There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.
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I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.
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The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.
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All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.
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If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not done what he did in the 21st. He would have understood how difficult it was to control this territory. He probably didn't read them.
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I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.
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You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.
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Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
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Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.
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