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Two Quotes by Umberto Eco
- If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's…
- When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés moves us…
- There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
- Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.
- Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational…
- I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.
- Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is…
- I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent…
- My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of…
- Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally…
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