Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes - Page 10

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• I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.

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  Book, Silence, Would Be

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• Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

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  Blood, Tears, Fiction

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• Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

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  Wise, Silence, Idiot

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• All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

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  Dream, Men, Animal

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• One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

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  Sweet, Heart, Greed

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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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  Blood, House, Soul

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.190, Penguin

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• I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.

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  Girl, Years, Brain

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• In principle I'm an atheist, although in fact I have a lot of faith

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  Atheist, Principles, Facts

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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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  Labyrinth, Triumph, Way

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• While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.

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  Eye, Looks

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.345, Penguin

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• That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.

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  Book, Reading, Sight

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.36, Penguin

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• I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking, I wouldn't notice that the world I thought I knew was no longer there.

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  Thinking, World, Streets

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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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  Sacrifice, Men, Soul

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• I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

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  Felt

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• I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

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  Writing, Tales, Died

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• You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.

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  Book, Believe, Thinking

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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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  Writing, Angel, Wind

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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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  Giving Not Receiving, Merit, Giving Back

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.80, Penguin

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• A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

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  Keeping Secrets, People, Kept Secrets

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.21, Penguin

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• Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

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  Truth, Book, Mirrors

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.200, Penguin

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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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  Book, Owners, Shadow Of The Wind

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.16, Penguin

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• I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power would surpass any postal limitations--a letter written with that pen would reach the most remote corners of the world, even that unknowable place to which my father said my mother had gone and from where she would never return.

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  Mother, Father, Writing

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.40, Penguin

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• Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.

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  Art, War, Ambition

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• A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood and the belief that, if he succeeds in not letting anyone discover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of the day, and what he covets the most: his name printed on a miserable piece of paper that surely will outlive him. A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price.

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  Dream, Sweet, Blood

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• Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.

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  Army, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Wind

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