"Our world will not die as the result……" — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"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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241 Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what…
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Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose…
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Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they…
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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…
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will…
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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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…
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that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
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Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a…
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... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable…
— Philip Zimbardo
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which…
— Andre Gide
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Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is…
— Susan Sontag
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Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is…
— Lewis Thomas
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Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which…
— Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
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Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple…
— Perry Anderson
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Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.
— Thrity Umrigar
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but…
— Umberto Eco
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Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
— Eugene Ionesco
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Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less…
— Robert C. Solomon
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