Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes - Page 9

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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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• 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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• 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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• Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.

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  Believe, Temptation, Wanted

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• Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.

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  Curse

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• [H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.

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  Years, Bye, Dawn

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• The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.

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  Men, Cities, Haunting

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• The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.

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  Teacher, Latin, Despair

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.96, Penguin

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• A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.

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  Kings, Book, Voice

  "Carlos Ruiz Zafón's top 10 20th-century gothic novels" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2010.

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• All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.

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  Kids, Lakes, Mirrors

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.117, Penguin

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• Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.

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  Reality, Hypocrisy, Spokes

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• Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

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  Cities, Weight, Barcelona

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• I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

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  Telling The Truth, Mood, Foul

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• Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.

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  Interesting, Example, Castles

  "Carlos Ruiz Zafón's top 10 20th-century gothic novels". www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; its like the end of the world.

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  Rain, Years, Sea

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• In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

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  Art, Book, Fate

  "Books hold no passport – Carlos Ruiz Zafón discusses The Shadow of the Wind". Interview with Steve Porter, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

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• My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

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  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

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  Father, Book, Firsts

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.14, Penguin

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• It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

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  Confusion, Ruins, Facts

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• I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.

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  Coffee, Thinking, Wings

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). “The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• One never forgets faces one wholeheartedly detests.

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  Faces, Never Forget, Forget

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). “The Prisoner of Heaven”, p.229, Hachette UK

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• I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?

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  Writing, Angel, Wind

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• Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

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  Running, Book, Reading

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.16, Penguin

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• In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.

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  Prejudice, World, Opinion

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.96, Penguin

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• The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows; it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.

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  Rain, Ceilings, Towers

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