"To survive, you must tell stories."

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Source : Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Umberto Eco

#Stories Quotes

“The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.”
“There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that.”
“There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.”
“I am more spontaneous than my character.”
“I give the character a history and a full life; this way the tears come naturally for the character in whatever situation calls for tears. Also, sometimes a certain song will help me feel emotions that evoke tears.”
“Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty”
“You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the wild half of themselves to do so, so that they no longer cared for the taste of the pale wind, no for love or lust, nor to make new songs nor to sing old ones, nor for any of the other animal things they believed they had brought with them out of the rain forests al the bottom of time--though in fact, so my uncle told me, those things brought them”

Source : Gene Wolfe (1994). “Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.38, Orb Books
“I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impactâ€”the more influence you had, the more impact you could create.Â .Â .Â . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.”

Source : "The Virologist" by Andrew Marantz, www.newyorker.com. January 5, 2015.

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