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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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
— Joseph Addison
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Jesters do oft prove prophets.
— William Shakespeare
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Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the…
— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
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A jester unemployed is nobodys fool.
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Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who…
— James Burnham
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I'm ready to forgive him for the desire to be a king, but not for wanting to have 23 million court jesters.
— Minimaks
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An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms and rebuild a…
— Henri Langlois
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Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the…
— Joe Randazzo
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Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the…
— Joe Randazzo
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As for the petty little world of journalism, the media demonstrates how it, more than anyone, is careful to traffic only in…
— Robert Faurisson
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