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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.
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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I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.
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Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
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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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Normal people bring children into the world we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.
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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
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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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I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?
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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
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