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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

Gabriel Garcia Marquez quotes

Colombian Novelist March 6, 1927

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[...] not knowing what he was doing because he did not know where his feet were or where his head was, or whose feet or whose head, and feeling that he could no longer resist the glacial rumbling of his kidneys and the air of his intestines, and fear, and the bewildered anxiety to flee and at the same time stay forever in that exasperated silence and that fearful solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Thank God I found my Chinaman in time. It's like being married..."
Thank God I found my Chinaman in time. It's like being married to your little finger, but he's all mine. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature."
One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Everyone will have gone then except us, because we're tied to this soil by a roomful of trunks where the household goods and clothing of grandparents are kept, and the canopies that my parenrs' horses used when they came to Macondo, fleeing from the war. We've been sown into this soil by the memory of the remote dead whose bones can no longer be found twenty fathoms under the earth. The trunks have been in the room ever since the last days of the war; and they'll be there this afternoon when... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "The world must be all fucked up...when men travel first class..."
The world must be all fucked up...when men travel first class and literature goes as freight. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Trying to provoke him into a terrifying sentence, I said: The only definitive thing is death. Yes, he said, but it isn't easy to get there when one's condition is as good as yours. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to..."
If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It was the first time in a half century that they had been so close and had enough time to look at each other with some serenity and they had seen each other for what they were: two old people, ambushed by death, who had nothing in common except the mercy of an ephemeral past that was no longer theirs but belonged to two young people who had vanished and who could have been their grandchildren. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
From that time on the parish priest began to show signs of senility that would lead him to say years later that the devil had probably won his rebellion against God, and that he was the one who sat on the heavenly throne, without revealing his true identity in order to trap the unwary. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She managed to thank God for having been born before she lost herself in the inconceivable pleasure of that unbearable pain, splashing in the steaming marsh of the hammock which absorbed the explosion of blood like a blotter Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented..."
literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "I knew what she thought of them by the changes in her silence"
I knew what she thought of them by the changes in her silence Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news..."
the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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