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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.
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
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
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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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Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory
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There are people you remember and people you dream of.
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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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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
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Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
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My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.
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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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Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
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In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived among shadows and silence, lent that setting a slight air of promise in which at least children and those who had learned the art of forgetting could still believe.
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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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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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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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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
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