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Umberto Eco Quotes

Italian - Novelist | January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

Book Reading Think Years I Think

I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

Work Black And White Black Evening

It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

Past World Story You Place Try

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.

Live You Streets Churches Medieval

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

Book Better You Wheel Hard See

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

English French Spanish Germans Spent

Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.

People End Church Go Falling Prey

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

War China Global Market Even Less

When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

Society Sick Someone Liberty Defend

Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.

Character World Connected Secret Him

There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

Nothing More Difficult Define Than

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

Funny Words Long True Witty Fact

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