Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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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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Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
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Necessity has the face of a dog.
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To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.
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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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If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.
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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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Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are
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It was a love of perpetual flight.
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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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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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The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.
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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.
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The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.
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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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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
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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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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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This soup tastes like windows...
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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.
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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.