"It was awkward, revisiting a world you have……" — Umberto Eco
"It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house."
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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 Awkward Quotes
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In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what…
— Amy Adams
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Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone…
— Drew Barrymore
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
— Alfred Adler
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I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in…
— Edward de Bono
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Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.
— Jeff Bridges
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I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent…
— Sandra Bullock
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I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
— John Clare
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For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me…
— Jarvis Cocker
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but…
— Fiona Apple
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I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I…
— Teri McKeever
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If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian…
— John Haynes Holmes
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