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You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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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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As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.
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For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.
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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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Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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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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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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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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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
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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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The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
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Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
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Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
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