Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes - Page 8

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• Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.

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  Doe, Coffins, Want

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• One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

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  Saint, Sinner

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• I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

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  Men, Talking, Monologues

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• I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.

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  Writing, Character, Magic

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• As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.

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  Book, Glasses, Mirrors

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• Write," he said. "I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian. "No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.

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  Book, Writing, Letters

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.263, Penguin

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• You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

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  Winning, Games, Balls

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Angel's Game: The Cemetery of Forgotten”, p.163, Hachette UK

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• They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

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  Ideas, Stories, Lessons

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• I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

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  Forget, Absence, Made

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• A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

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  Book, Mirrors, Shadow Of The Wind

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.457, Penguin

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• It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.

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  Teacher, Way, Students

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• It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

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  Pieces, Paper, Faces

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• A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.

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  Children, Growing Up, Father

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.178, Penguin

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• How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.

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  Silence, Soul, Needs

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.388, Penguin

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• He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people... I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them - a comfortable prison of his own design." "You say this as if you envied him." "There are worse prisons than words.

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  Memories, Book, Past

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• A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.

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  Agreement, Broken, Gentleman

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• Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?

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  World, Way, Fool

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• You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.

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  Heart, Nonsense

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.406, Penguin

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• Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

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  Wise, Wine, Men

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Shadow Of The Wind”, p.254, Hachette UK

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• Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

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  Liars, Childhood, Fool

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• Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?

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  Reality, Order, Ideas

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.423, Penguin

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• Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.

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  Country, Useless, Truth Is

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• Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

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  Los Angeles

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• One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.

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  Ambition, Bridges, Way

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• When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

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  Wind, Shadow, Shadow Of The Wind

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