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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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• I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.

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  Kings, Sound, Different

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

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  Felt

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

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  Wise, Silence, Idiot

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.

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  Sarcastic, Teacher, Children

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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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• The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult fiction, and because of this it became a very successful book, and right now it's some sort of a standard title, it's read widely in many high schools in Spain, so I think, in a way, I was a victim of my own success in the field of young adult fiction, because it was never my own natural register. I never intended to write that kind of fiction, but I became very successful at it.

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  Book, Writing, School

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• I would go to newsstands and buy paperbacks they were selling for tourists, usually bestsellers and mass market paperbacks. In the beginning, it was like going to the Rosetta Stone--I didn?t understand anything, I'd get a headache--but I began to figure it out, and I'd read a lot of Stephen King paperbacks. I've always said he was my English professor.

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  Kings, Tourists, Stones

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• I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic. There's a point after the industrial period where it seems like humanity's finally going to make it right. There were advances in medicine and technology and education. People are going to be able to live longer lives; literacy is starting to spread. It seemed like finally, after centuries of toiling and misery, that humanity was going to get to a better stage. And then what happens is precisely the contrary. Humanity betrays itself.

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  War, Epic, Technology

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