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People Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on…
- People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
- People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
- You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
- A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
- We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or…
- After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while…
- Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
- . . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the…
- ...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I…
- Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
- Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
- I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure…
- I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
- Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly…
- The air seemed poisoned with fear and hatred. People eyed on another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.
- He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people...…
- 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…
- There are people you remember and people you dream of.
- People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
- In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived…
- That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
- If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.
- People only disappear when they have somewhere to go
- I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle