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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?
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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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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.
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The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
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I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.
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Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
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Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.
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Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
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It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
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When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
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My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.
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I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. How does one choose a single book among so many? Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.
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