Remembering Umberto Eco on his birthday 🎂
📷 David Alan Harvey, 2002
"Whatever his merits as a novelist, Eco was an exceptionally shrewd self-promoter: it is not often that an academic keeps company in the book charts with Jackie Collins & Dick Francis."
- Ian Thomson
"Two clichés make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion."
- Umberto Eco, "Casablanca, or, The Clichés Are Having a Ball"
"We live for books."
- Umberto Eco
📷 Leonard McCombe, 1949
Umberto Eco by Andrea Frazzetta
"Reading is immortality backwards."
"Mickey Mouse can be perfect in the sense that a Japanese haiku is."
- Umberto Eco
📷 Rene Burri, Disney World, Orlando, 1972
"We are formed by little scraps of wisdom."
- Umberto Eco
📷 David Lees, 1980
#Quotomania @holdengraber
Umberto Eco by Martine Franck, 1992
"When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies."
Umberto Eco by Roberto Serra, Bologna, February 2015
"The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power."
In his @parisreview interview, Umberto Eco is asked where he was born.
"In the town of Alessandria. It is known for its Borsalino hats."
theparisreview.org/interviews/585…
Another Casablanca reference
Umberto Eco by Ferdinando Scianna, Milan, 1984
"It is necessary to meditate early, & often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once."
Umberto Eco in the Place Saint-Sulpice.
A great photo by Jacques Lange.
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