I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a …

Umberto Eco
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I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote I am that I am, for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside. ✨ Umberto Eco (2007). Foucault's Pendulum, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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