Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes - Page 5

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• Everything in life in nonsense. it's just a question of persepctive

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  Nonsense

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• We exist as long as somebody remembers us.

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  Long, Remember

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.165, Penguin

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• The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

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  Want, Way, Rich

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.190, Penguin

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• Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.

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  Believe, Book, People

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• Envy is the religion of the mediocre

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  Envy, Mediocre

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• In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

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  Boredom, News, Towns

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• Theory is the practice of the impotent.

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  Practice, Theory

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• With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

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  Sweet, Winter, Night

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.91, Penguin

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• People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

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  People, Monkeys, Too Much

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.124, Penguin

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• A piece of literature can be many things but first of all it must capture its audience. You need to seduce people, entice them into a world of beauty and horror, light and shadow, of passion, of romance, of mystery. That's the magic of it. Beyond that, of course, you can open a dialogue about the ideas which interest you, but first of all you absolutely must get inside people's minds.

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  Passion, Ideas, Light

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• God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.

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  Giving, Devil, World

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.407, Penguin

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• I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

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  Remember

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• Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.

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  Sex, Women, Eye

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• All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

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  Wind, Shadow, Stories

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• Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

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  Laughter, Our World, Bombs

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.106, Penguin

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• Never trust he who trusts everyone.

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  Trust, Never Trust

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.280, Penguin

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• Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.

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  Believe, Doors, Age

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• It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.

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  Book, Hard Work, Writing

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• Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whatever direction we took, we'd never be able to choose our own destiny.

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  Book, Past, Destiny

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• The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.

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  Mind, Needs, Tickets

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• The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today.

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  Lying, Believe, Heart

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• ... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.

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  Cities, Knowing, Listening

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• The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. Its a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and its hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.

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  Book, Tunnels, Bridges

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• We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

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  Believe, Willing

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• Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.

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  Writing, Novelists, Human Nature

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