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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that? “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
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