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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.

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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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None of us are what we once were.
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Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
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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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How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.
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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.
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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
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Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
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Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.
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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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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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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives 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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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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Nothing important is learned it is simply remembered.
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