"In fact I don't think of literature, or……" — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"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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241 Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
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