"I was the type who looked at discussions……" — Umberto Eco
"I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside."
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Umberto Eco
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275 Quotes by Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco has 275 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated…
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More Comma Quotes
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one of 60 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. Thats basic spelling that every woman ought…
— Unknown Author
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the…
— Truman Capote
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There is truth and falsehood in a comma.
— Tom Stoppard
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Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.
— Chris Martin
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History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence,…
— Mark Slouka
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A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than…
— William Strunk, Jr.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I mean we cant even rock them shoes if it dont got a comma on the price tag ya know.…
— Nicki Minaj
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If a period is a stop sign, then what kind of traffic flow is created by other marks? The comma…
— Roy Peter Clark
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Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never…
— Winston Graham
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