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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China. (Umberto Eco)
If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile. View quote
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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history. View quote
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Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics. View quote
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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities. View quote
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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. View quote
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The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature. View quote
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world. View quote
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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. View quote
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My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer. View quote
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As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. (Umberto Eco)
I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs. View quote
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio. View quote
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience. View quote
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The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own. View quote
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. View quote
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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly. View quote
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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. View quote
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious. View quote
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work. View quote
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book. (Umberto Eco)
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac. View quote
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History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community. View quote
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Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose. View quote
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Libraries can take the place of God. View quote
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