Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to
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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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When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.
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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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More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.
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To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.
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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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I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.
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He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.
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That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think... .
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One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
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Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
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A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
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She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .
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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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He is ugly and sad, but he is all love.
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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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...wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.
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Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
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This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.