Source: Inventing the Enemy and Other Occasional Writings
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Famous Umberto Eco Quotes
“Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.”
“I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.”
“I have to admit that I only read War and Peace when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.”
“I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.”
“I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.”
“I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.”
“If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.”
“My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.”
“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.”
“The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.”
Source: Travels in Hyperreality
“With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
Source: On Literature
Source: The Name of the Rose