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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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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
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Barcelona
Spain
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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
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He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.
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. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that? “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
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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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We all give up great expectations along the way.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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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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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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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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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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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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