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• The Beauty of the Universe consists not only of unity in variety but also of variety in unity.
  -- Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose...
• He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it.
  Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating....
• But since life is cruel, to you and to me, here I am. -- Umberto Eco
• Whenever anyone asks me what book I would take with me to a desert island, I reply, "The phone book
  with all those characters, I could invent an infinite number of stories. -- Umberto Eco...
• I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
  -- Fred Alle...
• I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
  -- Fred Alle...
• 9) "Unearthed Arcana" by Umberto Eco: A huge volume filled with highly obscure information that Eco compiled in monastery libraries that have been sealed up for centuries.
  The plot is so complicated that the publisher has packeged the book with a free set of Cliff's Notes....