Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with 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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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
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Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.
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He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.
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Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it...
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If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.
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And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.
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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
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I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.
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We'll grow old waiting.
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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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She felt the abyss of disenchantment.
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Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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Cease, cows, life is short.
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Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.
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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.
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In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
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Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.
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Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.
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For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened.