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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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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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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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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Hate and love are reciprocal passions.
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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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El mundo habrá acabado de joderse -dijo entonces- el día en que los hombres viajen en primera clase y la literatura en el vagón de carga.
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He who awaits much can expect little.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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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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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
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Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.
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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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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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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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Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had love him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death.
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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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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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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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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
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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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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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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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The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.