Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

About Carlos Ruiz Zafon:

Carlos Ruiz Zafón is a Spanish novelist.
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Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.

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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 sign that they don't really know anyone.

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Friends?" "Till death us do part.

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I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking, I wouldn't notice that the world I thought I knew was no longer there.

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We all give up great expectations along the way.

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An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect," Corelli asserted. "he claims that label to compensate for his inadequacies. It's as old as that saying : "Tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack....

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Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life to sharing them, to protecting them, and to making sure their pages, like our memories and our desires, are never lost.

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They teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. This is what any religious texts teach us. They’re all tales about characters who must confront lif...

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The incompetent always present thmeselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant, and teh feeble-minded as intellectual.

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An intellectual is some one who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensates for his inadequacies.

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There is nothing in the path of life that we don't already know before we start. Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

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Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value.

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I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.

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Don't be bashful; we're among gentlemen. It's a known fact that we men are the missing link between the pirate and the pig.

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-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

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A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity—or none at all—with which to analyze it and judge how to channel it. Throughout history societies have found ways of using this store of agg...

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He was waiting for me at the best table in the room, toying with a glass of white wine and listening to the pianist who was playing a piece by Granados with velvet fingers.

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All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem.

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Inspiration comes when you stick your elbows on the table, your bottom on the chair and you start sweating. Choose a theme, an idea, and squeeze your brain until it hurts. That's called inspiration.

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Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist. And the mor...

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Author Bio

  • NameCarlos Ruiz Zafon
  • DescriptionSpanish writer
  • BornSeptember 25, 1964
  • CountrySpain
  • ProfessionWriter