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  • We like lists because we don't want to die.

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    Interview with Susanne Beyer and Lothar Gorris, www.spiegel.de. November 11, 2009.

  • We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.

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    Umberto Eco (2001). “Foucault's Pendulum”, Random House

  • We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.

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    Escaping  
    "'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'". Interview with Susanne Beyer and Lothar Gorris, www.spiegel.de. November 11, 2009.

  • There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

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    Umberto Eco (2005). “On Literature”, p.347, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Umberto Eco

  • Born: January 5, 1932
  • Died: February 19, 2016
  • Occupation: Essayist
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