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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

Gabriel Garcia Marquez quotes

Colombian Novelist March 6, 1927

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "his blue eyes, lively and close-set, revealed the gentleness..."
...his blue eyes, lively and close-set, revealed the gentleness of a man who had read all of the books. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures,..."
I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with..."
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I..."
I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good."
wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude."
More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Get down! Get down!"The people in front had already done so, swept down by the wave of bullets. The survivors, instead of getting down, tried to go back to the small square, and the panic became a dragon's tail as one compact wave ran against another which was moving in the opposite direction, towards the other dragon's tail in the street across the way, where the machine guns were firing without cease. They were penned in, swirling about in a gigantic whirlwind that little by little was... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
At twelve o’clock, when Aureli-ano, Jos had bled to death and Carmelita Montiel found that the cards showing her future were blank, more than four hundred men had filed past the theater and discharged their revolvers into the abandoned body of Captain Aquiles Ricardo. A patrol had to use a wheelbarrow to carry the body, which was heavy with lead and fell apart like a water-soaked loaf of bread. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "He was begining to defer his problems in the hope that death..."
He was begining to defer his problems in the hope that death would resolve them . Gabriel Garcia Marquez
...the only souvenir she kept of Aureliano Segundo was a pair of patent leather boots, which, according to what he himself had said, were the ones he wanted to wear in his coffin. She kept them wrapped in cloth in the bottom of a trunk and made ready to feed on memories, waiting without despair. "He has to come sooner or later," she told herself, "even if it's just to put on those boots. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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