Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.
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When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.
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The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.
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The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.
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I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.
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Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.
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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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Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
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One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.
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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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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.
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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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They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.
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While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person.
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Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.
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...opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
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Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love.
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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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...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.
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The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.
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When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.
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Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.
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This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.