Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
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There is no forgiveness in nature.
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The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
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A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.
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For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.
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If states do not act according to principles of justice, the injustices they perpetrate will harm not just other states but ultimately also their own national interest.
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Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want,' he said, and then he paused, and thought. 'I want everything.'
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At the beginning, it was me, Run and D, but D's voice is messed up.
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While the agreement provides a level of constraint on Iran's nuclear weapons program, it confers legitimacy on their nuclear threshold status, an unprecedented shift for a country with so many entanglements.
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As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.
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Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.
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You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.
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Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger.
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He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.
