Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by their inscriptions but that no one would remember their use.... At the beginning of the road into the swamp they put up a sign that said "Macondo" and another larger one on the main street that said "God exists".
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.
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To me, going for a tie means kicking the extra point for a tie instead of going for a two-point conversion to win.
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Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.
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Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by their inscriptions but that no one would remember their use.... At the beginning of the road into the swamp they put up a sign that said "Macondo" and another larger one on the main street that said "God exists".
