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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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
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While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
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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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I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
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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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One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.
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All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.
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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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Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
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It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
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Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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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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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
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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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Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.
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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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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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