Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes - Page 11

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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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• 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 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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• Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

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  Wise, Silence, Idiot

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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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• 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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• 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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• -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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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