Quote by Umberto Eco
There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men wh

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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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 comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it. – Umberto Eco

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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. – Umberto Eco

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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. – Italo Calvino

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Under the Earth I go,
On the oak leaf I stand.
I ride on the filly
That was never foaled,
And I carry the dead in my hand. – Anon.

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for the soul. – Natalie Kusz, Road Song, 1990

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Stories give color to black and white information. – Todd Stocker

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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing. – Jean Baptist Colbert, attributed

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What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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