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Umberto Eco Quotes

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: italian
Birth: January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016

Topics

Age Beginning Enlightenment Reason

I recently read a collection of stories called 'Boondock Kollage,' by Regina Bradley. The stories follow multiple characters through the South, through the past and present. I loved reading that book: the first time I read the opening story, I was breathless and incoherent.

Time Past Book Reading Story Loved

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

Love Learning Happy Me Long I Can

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.

Great Myself Me Book Picture Credit

The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst of pride over and above anything they had had since the decline of the movement of Marcus Garvey.

John Henrik Clarke

Black Pride America Rise Islam Over

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

Environmental Patterns Shift Less

We all are faced by problems of 'How am I going to get the rent?' or 'Am I going to have this job six months from now?' It's very difficult to define in your life a victory.

Michael A. Stackpole

Life Job Victory Problems Now Rent

It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being.

Stephen LaBerge

Health Medical Research Looking

If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000.

City Data You Ten Years Look Lost

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

Me Voice I Can More Realize Capable

I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning.

Beginning Know Why Never Right Stay

I love when someone doesn't pretend to be someone they are not.

Love Someone Pretend I Love

I know that one day all transgender individuals will have the freedom to be who they are, no matter what. And we won't have to face the cruel judgments of society. We can just live our lives and be treated and respected like everyone else.

Live Freedom Day Society Face Know

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