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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.

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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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Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
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There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.
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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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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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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
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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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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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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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That's what happens when people reach old age nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
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Envy is the religion of the mediocre
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Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
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One mustn't dream of one's future one must earn it.
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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
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Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
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Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
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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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