Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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Hate and love are reciprocal passions.
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his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.
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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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He who awaits much can expect little.
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Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.
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The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
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...and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.
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His mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.
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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
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I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.
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He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.
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It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
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Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.