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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How many times have I thought of me sitting on a bench with him and me wriggling away from whatever he wanted to talk to me about. Sometimes you say you're going to write a story about that and sometimes it just arrives, and those scenes arrive.
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I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.
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Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.
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A person who is shallow aspires to depth; one who is ugly aspires to beauty; one who is narrow aspires to breadth; one who is poor aspires to wealth; one who is humble aspires to esteem. Whatever one lacks in oneself he must seek outside.
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A tiger never loses sleep over the opinion of sheep.
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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.
