Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.
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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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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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I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
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A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.
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When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.
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You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.
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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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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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Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.
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The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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Music is important for one's health.
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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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He governed as if he felt predestined to never die...
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Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.
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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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Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was explaining in great detail the mechanism of love, he interrupted him to ask: “What does it feel like?” José Arcadio gave an immediate reply: “It’s like an earthquake.
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The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.
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...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.
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One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.
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The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.
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...races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
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There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.