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'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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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
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I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.
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Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.
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We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.
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One summer vacation, I carried water to the town market to sell it, and I used some of the money I made to help a neighbour.
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We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe...
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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.
