"Theory is the practice of the impotent." — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

"Theory is the practice of the impotent."

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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241 Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Carlos Ruiz Zafon has 241 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what…
Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose…
Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they…
The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written…
I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will…
I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be…
that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
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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Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up… — Roseanne Barr
Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. — William Shakespeare
In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as… — Mahatma Gandhi
As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a… — Celia Thaxter
We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher… — Mark Twain
To freemen, threats are impotent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Law, without force, is impotent. — Blaise Pascal
Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything. — Honore de Balzac
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood. — Thomas Jefferson
Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent. — John Mott
It has to come out of the chain of command, because the chain of command has really become impotent. The… — Paula Coughlin

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