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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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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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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The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
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Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?
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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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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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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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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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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
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In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
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Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
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There are people you remember and people you dream of.
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We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.
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