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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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You’ll come back To me . . . It’s written in the stars, you see, you’ll come back. You’ll come back, it’s a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you.
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Authors frequently say things they are unaware of only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said
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He who falls in love in bars doesn't need a woman all his own. He can always find one on loan.
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Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my writings, the theoretical ones as well as the novels, with the production of fakes.
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