Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.
Umberto Eco
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The great American poet Wallace Stevens said: "One's ignorance is one's chief asset."
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We’re losing our families future to #skyrocketingCO2 but won’t be erudition for us in return. Fix is chaos.
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I had the great pleasure of seeing "The three Musketeers": Umberto Eco, Mario Vargas Llosa and Salman Rushdie at the 92Y in 2008. Their conversation about creativity during political oppression seemed particularly relevant today and their readings were fantastic.
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Quotes, like books, are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.
False Eco
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This quote seems to say that knowing just one thing is for losers but it’s the way to win.
Sounds close to an oxymoron to me. Am I reading it poorly?
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I also found this one from Eco, which I really like and wanted to share with you: “Winners are stupid… because usually they win by chance.”
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consciousness is a disease? as for me, im still dealing with that scourge of all scourges, that sisyphus' boulder, that fucking Apollon, with his insufferably coiffed a thousand times damnable smirking countenance.
Brooke: I never went to college. I'm an autodidact. Do you know what that means?
Tracy: Yes
Brooke: That word is one of the things that I self-taught myself.
Noah Baumbach, Mistress America (2015)
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