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Quote by Umberto Eco

“To survive, you must tell stories.”

Quote by Umberto Eco

Book:The Island of the Day Before

Work

The Island of the Day Before

This novel explores the concept of time and its peculiarities on an island where the passage of time is unique, blending elements of fantasy and introspection. more

Author

Italian essayist, scholar, and critic. Umberto Eco is renowned for his unique literary style and profound academic background. His works integrate history, philosophy, literature, and semiotics, with his most famous novel being 'The Name of the Rose'. more

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“All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny, you were too busy trying to fit in.”

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“I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God' as my father used to say, to those we love? Or even to ourselves? Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?”

“I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.”

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Book:Psychological writings and letters

Source: Psychological writings and letters

“[My mom's] funny that way, celebrating special occasions with blue food. I think it's her way of saying anything is possible. Percy can pass seventh grade. Waffles can be blue. Little miracles like that.”

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Author:Rick Riordan

“unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it”

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Book:sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems

Source: sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems

“I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.”

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“...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all; and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'”

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Author:William Faulkner

“We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.”

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

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Author:Mikhail Bulgakov

“But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse”

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Book:Suttree

Source: Suttree