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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Poor
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Harmless
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Imitate
Efficient
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The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.
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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
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A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.
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You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
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