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Umberto Eco has 276 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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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…
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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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…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads…
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale…
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But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.
— Kathy Acker
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Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to…
— Marina Abramovic
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The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder…
— Jack Kerouac
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I'm like a fatter version of Amy Winehouse and a skinnier version of Lily Allen.
— Katy Perry
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[T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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There was always news coming back to the quarter about someone who had been killed or sent to prison for killing someone…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Don Knotts was a really big influence, especially on the Steve Allen show. I mean, look at the guy, his entire life…
— Tim Conway
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I'm a big fan of 'Woody Allen' movies, so I like all the actresses in his movies like 'Diane Keaton' and Mia…
— Emily Perkins
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I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a…
— James Gandolfini
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When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.
— Oscar Levant
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I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all…
— Elton John
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Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.
— Peter Fonda
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