"Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And……" — Umberto Eco
"Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels."
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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 Anglo Quotes
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Either the Anglo-Saxon race will possess the Pacific slope or the Mongolians will possess it. We have this day to…
— James G. Blaine
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America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. It is a nation of minorities…
— Unknown Author
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Do you remember when we played in Spain in the Anglo-Italian Cup?
— Unknown Author
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The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold…
— Edward James Olmos
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Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these…
— John Fowles
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This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook…
— Patricia Highsmith
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The New World Order is a more palatable name for the Anglo American world empire. It's the planetary domination of…
— Alex Jones
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Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist…
— Cherrie Moraga
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Africa is still lying ready for us, it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize…
— Cecil Rhodes
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There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but…
— Cornelia Otis Skinner
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