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From Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
- 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…
- A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
- A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
- I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power…
- A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never…
- That afternoon the sky was scattered with black clouds galloping in from the sea and clustering over the city. Flashes of lightening echoed on the…
- As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light…
- 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…
- Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were…
- Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used…
- I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this…
- Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, doesn't…
- A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
- I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson…
- My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by…
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