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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

Gabriel Garcia Marquez quotes

Colombian Novelist March 6, 1927

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This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabito isn't deceiving anyone," she said with an innocent smile, "but sometimes it happens that even God needs to make weeks that are two years long. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Amaranta would sigh, laugh, and dream of a second homeland of handsome men and beautiful women who spoke a childlike language, with ancient cities of whose past grandeur only the cats among the rubble remained. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Dawns in the dormitory had a suspicious resemblance to happiness."
Dawns in the dormitory had a suspicious resemblance to happiness. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "No medicine cures what happiness cannot."
No medicine cures what happiness cannot. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Until you're about the age of twenty you read everything, and you like it simply because you are reading it. then between twenty and thirty you pick up what you want, and you read the best, you read all the great works. after that you sit and wait for them to be written. But you know the least know, the least famous writers, they are the better ones. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t..."
Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It occurred to me that among the charms of old age are the provocations our young female friends permit themselves because they think we are out of commission. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That was the state of the world when I began to be aware of my family environment, and I cannot evoke it in any other way: sorrows, griefs, uncertainties in the solitude of an immense house. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The woman stayed on her stool, silent, concentrating, watching the man's movements with an air of declining sadness. Watching him as a lamp about to go out might have looked at a man. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But when she saw her eating with her hands, incapable of giving an answer that was not a miracle of simple-mindedness, the only thing that she lamented was the fact that the idiots in the family lived so long. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He had not stopped desiring her for a single instant. He found her in the dark bedrooms of captured towns, especially in the most abject ones, and he would make her materialize in the smell of dry blood on the bandages of the wounded, in the instantaneous terror of the danger of death, at all times and in all places. He had fled from her in an attempt to wipe out her memory, not only through distance but by means of a muddled fury that his companions at arms took to be boldness, but the more... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "I have no friends," he said. "And if I do have any left it..."
I have no friends," he said. "And if I do have any left it won't be for long. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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