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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
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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.
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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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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
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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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A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.
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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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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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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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The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.
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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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somethings can only be seen in the shadows
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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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As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.
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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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