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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.
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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Bombs
Everything
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World
Laughter
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Lousy
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Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
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I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.
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All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.
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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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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
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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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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.
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That's what happens when people reach old age nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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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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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
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The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.
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I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
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How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.
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Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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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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