Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.

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Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
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'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.
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The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
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When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.
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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.
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I've never felt any huge intrusions into my personal life.
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Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other words, I was kind of a catch. And I knew this was true. As long as you couldn't see me. If you saw me, you'd think I was the sea cow that had swallowed your catch.
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The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.
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I'm very keen that we have this debate about the good parts of inequality and the bad parts of inequality. It's not a one-sided thing.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.
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It was hard saying goodbye to the 'iCarly' family just because we have become such a family, but I do get to see them all the time, and I stay in touch with them.
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You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.