Umberto Eco Quotes - Page 12

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• Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation.

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  Poetry, Literature, Outcomes

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• We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

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  Limits, Discouraging, Humiliating

  "We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die". Interview with Susanne Beyer and Lothar Gorris, www.spiegel.de. November 11, 2009.

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• When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

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  Book, Writing, World

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• I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

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  Passion, People, Age

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• We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

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  Racism, Feelings, Racist

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• We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.

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  Clever, Lists, Laundry

  Umberto Eco (2001). “Foucault's Pendulum”, Random House

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• To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.

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  People, Political, Secret

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.

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  Home, Journey, Long

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• Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

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  Discipline, Today, Scientist

  "God isn't big enough for some people" by Umberto Eco, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 27, 2005.

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• One of the problems I have always discussed is the refusal to distinguish between comment and fact. The newspaper wraps every fact into a comment. It is impossible to give mere fact without establishing point of view.

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  Views, Giving, Facts

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my writings, the theoretical ones as well as the novels, with the production of fakes.

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  Writing, Fake, Conspiracy

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.

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  Hands, Doe, Hands Of God

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.512, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

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  Creativity, Capitalist

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• In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

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  Needs, Firsts, Construction

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.

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  Inspiration, Common Sense, Liberty

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.

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  New York, Order, Succeed

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• Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Artist, Political

  "Don't smile when you say that" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

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  Easier, Passing, Difficult

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.

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  Watches, Television, Serious

  "Umberto Eco, 1932-2016". Obituary by Marvin Olasky, world.wng.org. February 20, 2016.

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• I enjoyed your article, but I preferred my own.

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  Articles, My Own, Enjoyed

  Speaking to Jeremy Treglown, editor of the Times Literary Supplement. Quoted in Derwent May Critical Times: The History of the Times Literary Supplement (2001).

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• I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.

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  People, Way, Conspiracy

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

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  Years, Long, Criticism

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

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  People, Again And Again

  "We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die". Interview with Susanne Beyer and Lothar Gorris, www.spiegel.de. November 11, 2009.

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• In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

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  War, Fire, Flames

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• This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.

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  Memories, Ideas, Imagination

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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