Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.
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All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.
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I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.
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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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She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .
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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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He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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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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Nobody teaches life anything.
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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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No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.
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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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Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.
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Jealousy knows more than truth does.
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Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.
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It is impossible to explain. But what I like most is to eat.
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Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
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Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
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Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.
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Shame has poor memory.