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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.
If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty .
In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.
Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.
He who falls in love in bars doesn't need a woman all his own. He can always find one on loan.
There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.
Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.
Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
I have to admit that I only read War and Peace when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.
If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.
I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.
Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!
Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?
... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.
A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.
An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.
I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.
The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!
Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.
Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.
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.
The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.
I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.
Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.
Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.
Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.