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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
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
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One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
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A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. Its a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and its hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
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Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
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I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.
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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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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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Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
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There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
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To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
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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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Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.
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Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
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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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