I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
From Umberto Eco
If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.
Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
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