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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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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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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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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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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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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You, on the other hand, look like you might be partial to the skinny type, a point of view I fully respect, don't misunderstand me.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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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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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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Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
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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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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. How does one choose a single book among so many? Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.
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Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
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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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There are worse prisons than words.
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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