Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
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Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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I love meeting new people, different cultures. I love that.
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Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
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In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.
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It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel it in the chilled and weary marrow of my bones.
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Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.
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Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.
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Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.
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For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.
