Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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His place was always set at the table, in case he returned from the dead without warning .
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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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Shame has poor memory.
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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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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
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The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it on the harsh pieces of parchment that Melquiades gave him, on the bathroom walls, on the skin of his arms, and in all of it Remedios would appear transfigured: Remedios in the soporific air of two in the afternoon, Remedios in the soft breath of the roses, Remedios in the water-clock secrets of the moths, Remedios in the steaming morning bread, Remedios everywhere and Remedios forever.
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Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them.
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Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.
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It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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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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All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
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When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat.
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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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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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When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.
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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.
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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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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.