Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.
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I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
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On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
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Theatricals can be irritating, but will provide a better night out than mobile phone salespeople.
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The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted - or rather tend to be corrupted - by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to become bureaucrats, i.e., privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.
