#la

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#free #insane #laugh #learning #lies

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#am #because #birth #care #child

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#capacity #completely #consumed #continuing #define

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#africa #because #books #central #comic

This autocue was obviously written for someone else and I've been brought in at the last minute. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#brought #else #i #last #minute

There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#anyway #being #channel #channel 4 #cliff

I want to reclaim who I am. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#i #i am #reclaim #want #who

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

#becomes #christianity #god #invariable #law

I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important. ↗

— Stefan Edberg

#i #i think #important #myself #playing

I've been on the tour for many, many years. It's time for me to go now, before it's too late. ↗