Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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Necessity has the face of a dog.
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Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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It was a love of perpetual flight.
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The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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This soup tastes like windows...
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But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.
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She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.
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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
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This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.
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People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
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I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.
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There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. And when you do find one, observe with care, they almost always have crystals in their heart
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He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.
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Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.
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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
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Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.