Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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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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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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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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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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To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.
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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 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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Necessity has the face of a dog.
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It was a love of perpetual flight.
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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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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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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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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
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This soup tastes like windows...
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The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.
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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
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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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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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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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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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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 is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.