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Joe Santone
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“A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.”
― The Name of the Rose
― The Name of the Rose
“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
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“Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.”
― The Name of the Rose
― The Name of the Rose
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