Quote by Umberto Eco
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma,

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. – Umberto Eco

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There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries…. – Umberto Eco

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Storytelling
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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. – Umberto Eco

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Fear
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In the United States theres 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. – Umberto Eco

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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. – Anatole France

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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say youre cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. – W. Somerset Maugham

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A writers job is to tell the truth. – Andy Rooney

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I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth. – Alice Miller

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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. – John Lyly

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My relationship with Pollyanna is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood. – Eleanor Porter

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