Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.
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Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.
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My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
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Music is important for one's health.
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It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
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Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.
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At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.
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Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.
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The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.
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Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when forced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty.
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He governed as if he felt predestined to never die...
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The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
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She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.
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To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love...
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He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.
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She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week.
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Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.
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I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.
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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.
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Children's lies are signs of great talent.
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Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.