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[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.
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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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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
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I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.
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Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!
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Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
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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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Simple mechanisms do not love.
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Libraries can take the place of God.
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When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.
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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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In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty .
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.
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I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.
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Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used to tell at all.
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There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
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