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Umberto Eco, The Island Of The Day Before
5 quotes
Quotes
- “All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like...”
- “Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other...”
- “the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the...”
- “But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the ...”
- “To survive, you must tell stories.”