Quotes From "How To Travel With A Salmon And Other Essays" By Umberto Eco

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The taxi driver is someone who spends all day driving in city traffic (an activity that provokes either heart attack or delirium), in constant conflict with other human drivers. Consequently, he is nervous and hates every anthropomorphic creature. Umberto Eco
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To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. Instead of being told honestly what humans are and what bears are. Umberto Eco
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What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves? Umberto Eco
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiouslythree old owls on a chest of drawerswere screwingthe daughter of the doctor. But then the mother called them, colorless green ideas slepp furiously. Umberto Eco