Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes - Page 11

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story.

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  Two, Monsters, Saint

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• One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.

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  Once In A Lifetime, Lifetime, One Love

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• -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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• 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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• 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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• ... 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 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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• 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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• 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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