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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

Gabriel Garcia Marquez quotes

Colombian Novelist March 6, 1927

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Life...was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other...The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was the fear of the unknown Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If his life depended on it, hehad to find out later why that indomitable soldier, accustomed to fighting to the last dropof blood, had left the final battle of his life unfinished. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a..."
Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all..."
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "People have three lives: the public life, the private life and..."
People have three lives: the public life, the private life and the secret life... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "For you was I born, foryou do I have life, for you will I die,..."
For you was I born, foryou do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Nobody teaches life anything."
Nobody teaches life anything. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that tried to turn me into anything but a writer. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One..."
Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "From then on I began to measure my life not by years but by..."
From then on I began to measure my life not by years but by decades. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you..."
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine twilight, painted with homemade paints, and the walls papered with pictures of children at memorable moments: the first Communion, the bunny costume, the happy birthday. Year after year, during contemplative pauses on afternoons of chess, Dr. Urbino had seen the gradual covering over of the walls, and he had often thought with a shudder of sorrow that in the gallery of casual portraits... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tell me something, old friend: why are you fighting?"What other reason could there be?" Colonel Gerineldo Marquez answered. "For the great Liberal party."You're lucky because you know why," he answered. "As far as I'm concerned, I've come to realize only just now that I'm fighting because of pride."That's bad," Colonel Gerineldo Marquez said. Colonel Aureliano Buendia was amused at his alarm. "Naturally," he said. "But in any case, it's better than not knowing why you're fighting." He looked... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Well," Aureliano said. "Tell me what it is."Pilar Ternera bit her lips with a sad smile."That you would be good in a war," she said. "Where you put your eye, you put your bullet. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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