I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writ…

Umberto Eco
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I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. ✨ Umberto Eco (2014). Travels in Hyperreality, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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