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A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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I write what I write.
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The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
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What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
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I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it.
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Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.
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Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.
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The poets did not win the philosophers surrendered.
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
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If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
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It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.
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