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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'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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I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.
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Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit … Life, liberty, and thought - three persons in one substance, eternal, never-ending, and unceasing.
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My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.
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By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.
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I was vaguely aware that people used to hijack planes to Cuba. But I didn't know much about how often it happened and what the motives were. I started looking into what was going on back then, and I was blown away by how common hijacking once was.
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Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.
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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.
