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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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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.
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Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.
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...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies).
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Sometimes my characters are not myself.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.
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What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.
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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
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History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.
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Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.
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That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity.
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It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.
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The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!
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There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.
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By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.
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The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.
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