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Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we too would become Taliban.
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If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.
Umberto Eco
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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I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.
Umberto Eco
The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.
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New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past it passes out memories generously like a great lord it doesn't have to pursue the real thing.
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but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.
Umberto Eco
Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.
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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
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The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.
Umberto Eco
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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Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.
Umberto Eco
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
Umberto Eco
You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.
Umberto Eco
The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.
Umberto Eco
If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.
Umberto Eco
You don't fall in love because you fall in love you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.
Umberto Eco
Books always speak of other books.
Umberto Eco
I love the smell of book ink in the morning.
Umberto Eco
I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.
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