Umberto Eco Quotes

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

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• In the United States there’s a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

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• People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.

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• I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

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• Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means…

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• Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known: books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

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• We live for books.

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• I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

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• When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

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• What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

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• We like lists because we don’t want to die.

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

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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.

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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.

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• People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

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• Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

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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.

   

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• My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

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• It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

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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.

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Umberto Eco (49)

Birth:	5th January, 1932
Nationality:	Italian
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Philosopher

About

Umberto Eco Knight Grand Cross is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist. He is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 novel Il nome della rosa, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory.

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