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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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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves…
— Sean Astin
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
— Roy Blount, Jr.
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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a…
— Anthony Burgess
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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat…
— George Carlin
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I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a…
— Diablo Cody
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If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.
— Albert Mohler
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I went to a bookstore to try to find a book. The bottom line is, it all comes by trial and error.…
— Michael Jordan
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That's exactly how I want you to feel. When you finish this book, I want you to be filled with curiosity. I…
— Clare B. Dunkle
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I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my…
— Jessica Chastain
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I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.
— Garrett Hedlund
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I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books…
— Chetan Bhagat
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