"He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for……" — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant and the feeble-minded as intellectual."
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241 Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
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