Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Dreams of flying have haunted the collective imagination since time immemorial.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating ... — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when one has to make up one’s mind and choose which side one is on. The catoptric universe… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Jacopo Belbo didn't understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“But can I really will anything? At this moment I feel the pleasure of being stone, the sun warms me, the wind… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“In that face, deformed by hatred of philosophy, I saw for the first time the portrait of the Antichrist, who does not… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I transcribe my text with no concern for timeliness. In the years when I discovered the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I stood back up and looked down at my feces. A lovely snail-shell architecture, still steaming. Borromini. My bowels must be in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“It’s true,” Benno said, smiling for the first time, his face growing almost radiant. “We live for books. A sweet mission in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“And in that moment I experience a revelation. I realize now that it was a painful sense that the world is purposeless,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Impassioned in his gesticulation, his voice persuasive, his smile fascinating, his reasoning clear and consequential, he held his listeners fast for all… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do not know today, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“...living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Who among us is living in the past? You, who would bestow the horrors of the toiling industrial age upon this country,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
