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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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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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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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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need 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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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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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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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
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As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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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 could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.
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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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