Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes - Page 11

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

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  Blood, Tears, Fiction

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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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• Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

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  Wise, Silence, Idiot

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived among shadows and silence, lent that setting a slight air of promise in which at least children and those who had learned the art of forgetting could still believe.

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  Art, Children, Believe

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• I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.

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  Book, Eye, Promise

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.459, 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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• A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

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  Men, Age, Vices

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• You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.

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  Talking, People, Say Anything

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.115, Penguin

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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.

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  Mistake, Men, Thinking

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

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