Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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• By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

  

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• So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

  

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• For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

  

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• I'm here today because I hated everything else.

  

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• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

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• I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

  

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• The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.

  

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• People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

  

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• I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
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• Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

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• Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.

  

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• You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

  

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• Career had a lot to do with 80 percent of my breakups. It's very tough to date a struggling musician. The idea of it is enticing and fun and mysterious. But the reality is long hours and hard work. I have a lot of respect for the women I've dated.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Work
  • Long
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• Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

  

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• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

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• I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

  

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• Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.

  

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• I think 'Teenage Wasteland' was one of those cult hits like 'My So-Called Life', something that came along and got a lot of viewers and then somehow fell into a bad timeslot that nobody ever watched, and then the network pulled the plug prematurely.

  

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• You can act, or you can't. I'm sure a lot of people who are serious about acting would disagree, but I'm not really worried about them.

  

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  • Serious

• I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever.

  

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  • Kind
  • Opinion
  • Enemy

• People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Life
  • Time