"I seem to know all the cliches, but……" — Umberto Eco
"I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed."
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Umberto Eco
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275 Quotes by Umberto Eco
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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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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its…
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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…
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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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