Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight.
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I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.
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In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.
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To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love...
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The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.
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She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .
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He governed as if he felt predestined to never die...
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When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.
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If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
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For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
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Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.
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It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.
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How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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When he went through the kitchen he kissed Rebeca on the forehead. "Get those bad thoughts out of your head," he told her. "You're going to be happy.
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Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
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The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.
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A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.
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Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.
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One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.
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In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.
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...races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
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He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.
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Music is important for one's health.