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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.

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Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

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The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

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The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

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Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.

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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Novelist

Born: January 5th, 1932

Died: February 19th, 2016

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