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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

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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
Madmen
Mad
Others
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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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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Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?
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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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The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.
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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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That's what happens when people reach old age nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
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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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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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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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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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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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