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Is it possible to say 'It was...

Is it possible to say 'It was a beautiful morning at the end of November' without feeling like Snoopy?

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I discovered ... that a novel ...

I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Not that the incredulous perso...

Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I think that at a certain age,...

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Since I became a novelist I ha...

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don't like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don't like it.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

The followers must feel besieg...

The followers must feel besieged.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I am a professor who writes no...

I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

The good of a book lies in its...

The good of a book lies in its being read.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Books are menaced by books. An...

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

There are no stories without m...

There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries....

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

'You cannot believe what you ...

'You cannot believe what you are saying.' 'Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an ideal nymph, only to plumb with his words the depths of passion. The philosopher tests the coldness of his gaze, to see how far he can undermine the fortress of bigotry.'

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

What does culture want? To mak...

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

The only truth lies in learnin...

The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

There are four types: the cret...

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

And we, inhabitants of the gre...

And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too, like everything else, is but an embroidery of voids in the Void, and we give the name of being, dense and even eternal, to that dance of inconsistencies, that infinite extension that is identified with absolute Nothingness and that spins from its own non-being the illusion of everything.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I've always said that I learne...

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Every time that I write a nove...

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.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Perhaps I am not as wise as I ...

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I write what I write....

I write what I write.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Someone said that patriotism i...

Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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