Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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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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Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery blush that rose to her face. She was embarrassed when she greeted him, and he was more embarrassed by her embarrassment. The knowledge that they were behaving as if they were sweethearts was even more embarrassing, and the knowledge that they were both embarrassed embarrassed them so much that Captain Samaritano noticed it with a tremor of compassion.
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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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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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They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.
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This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.
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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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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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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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My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
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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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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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You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.
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Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.
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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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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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...opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
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How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!
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When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.
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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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...races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
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He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.
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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.