Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes - Page 6

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• Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.

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  Men, Smell, Hot

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• Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.

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  Memories, War, Convince Us

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• There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

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  Second Chance, Chances In Life, Feels

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.344, Penguin

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• Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.

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  Childhood, Fickle, Lovers

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.42, Penguin

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• If you think you’re the only person for whom life is painful, you’re wrong. And if you don’t mind letting yourself die like a dog, at least have the decency to remember that there are those of us who do care – although, to tell the truth, I don’t see why?

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  Dog, Thinking, Mind

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• As readers, we want not only a strong story, but also characters we can relate to, characters that feel real. We have to find something of ourselves in them. Each character, even those only there to serve the mechanics of the plot, should have a number of layers. The entire world you are stepping into as a reader must feel real. It must have resonance, you must be able to touch the light; smell the smells.

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  Strong, Real, Character

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• My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.

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  Moving, Thinking, Wife

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• To truly hate is an art one learns with time.

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  Art, Hate

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.68, Penguin

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• It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

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  Destiny, Might, Chance

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

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• The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.

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  World

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• I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins who want to tell us what is good and what is bad. Every book has a soul ... and I believe every book is worth saving from either bigotry or oblivion.

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  Believe, Book, Soul

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• Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

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  Inspirational, Money, Hard

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• Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

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  Art, Book, Reading

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

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• There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

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  Mind, Language, Dormant

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.24, Penguin

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• Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

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  Heart, Broken, Scratches

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• Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.

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  Animal, Men, Skills

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

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• I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

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  Magic, Paper, Perfume

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• Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

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  Book, Reading, Heart

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• Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.

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  Dream, Believe, Character

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• The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.

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  Looks, World, Virtuous

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• There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.

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  Book, Two, Enough

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• Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.

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  Compassion, Sometimes, Difficult

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Angel's Game: The Cemetery of Forgotten”, p.314, Hachette UK

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• I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

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  Hands, Brain, Spirit

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• It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.

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  Bed, Good Company, Young

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Angel's Game: The Cemetery of Forgotten”, p.258, Hachette UK

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• You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music, in terms of its rhythms and dynamics, the way you compress and expand the attention of a reader over a sentence, the way the tempo pushes you towards an image or sensation. We want an intense experience, so that we can forget ourselves when we enter the world of the book. When you are reading, the physical object of the book should disappear from your hands.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

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