Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes - Page 10

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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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  Writing, Would Be, Stories

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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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• 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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  Reflection, Mirrors, Identity

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.17, Penguin

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• Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.

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  Hands, Television, World

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• In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.

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  Dream, Book, Two

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.37, Penguin

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• In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.

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  Hero, Stories, Able

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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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  Children, Book, Kids

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

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  White, Buttocks, Nun

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.92, 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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• A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more vulnerable to vanity. I was 36 when I wrote The Shadow of the Wind and the success of it was very gradual. If you have this kind of success straight off, I think there is a danger you can become an idiot, because you don't have a perspective. It hasn't changed me a lot. I fly first class now. But those things don't change you. If I am pretentious, I was before, I haven't changed. The only thing is, I am less anxious now.

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  Thinking, Vanity, Wind

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• It is difficult to hate an idea. That requires a certain intellectual discipline and a slightly obsessive, sick mind. There aren’t too many of those. It’s much easier to hate someone with a recognizable face whom we can blame for everything that makes us feel uncomfortable. It doesn’t have to be an individual character. It could be a nation, a race, a group. . .anything.

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  Hate, Character, Race

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• In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story.

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  Past, Night, Rays

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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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  Art, Blood, Literature

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• Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.

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  Men, Animal, Moral

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• He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.

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  Knowing, Clay, Our Words

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• Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.

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  Age, Widows, Necks

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• I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.

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  Believe, Age, Storytelling

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2010). “The Prince Of Mist”, p.1, Hachette UK

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• -Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

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  Dirty, Thinking, Want

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• ... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.

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  Frightened, Deep Down

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). “The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• I was aware of the risks I was taking, but I did'nt care.

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  Risk, Care

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• You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.

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  Eye, Becoming, Ends

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