Italian - Novelist | January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016
I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
Umberto Eco
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What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
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There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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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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The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar 'queen,' alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
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Translation is the art of failure.
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My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.
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There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
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Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.
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