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Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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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
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Men
Wine
Fool
Wise

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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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If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
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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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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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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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