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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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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Young
Anything
Never
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Talking

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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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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. Its a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and its hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You, on the other hand, look like you might be partial to the skinny type, a point of view I fully respect, don't misunderstand me.
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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
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Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.
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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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Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived among shadows and silence, lent that setting a slight air of promise in which at least children and those who had learned the art of forgetting could still believe.
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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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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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