"Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a……" — Umberto Eco
"Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating."
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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 Chapter Quotes
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The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole…
— Unknown Author
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All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the…
— Gaylord Nelson
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I will argue until my last breath for a pathway to citizenship that is quick and efficient because I want…
— Luis Gutierrez
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In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian…
— Charles Hodge
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Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a…
— Barbara Boxer
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Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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I remember that after that teaching given to me as a young man, as a boy, almost, by the President…
— Heber J. Grant
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When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You…
— Oprah Winfrey
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This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis…
— Michio Kaku
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By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or…
— Thomas Hobbes
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I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is…
— Charles Lyell
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Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their…
— Adam Sedgwick
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