Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.
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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.
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The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
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It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.
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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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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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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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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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One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.
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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
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She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.
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Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.
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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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There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.
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Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.
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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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He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.
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If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.
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They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.
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In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.