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Generating Quotes by Umberto Eco
- A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.
- A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.
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- The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of… — George W. Bush
- To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and… — Christopher Alexander
- Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy. — Alexis Carrel
- Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out. — Wayne LaPierre
- The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion… — Robert Mayer
- It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will… — Bernard DeVoto
- We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce… — Lester R. Brown
- I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of pressure on yourself… — Rob Riggle
- I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a… — Sol Stein
- A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our… — Carl Jung
- Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything. — Edward Abbey
- The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that… — Thomas Paine