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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

Gabriel Garcia Marquez quotes

Colombian Novelist March 6, 1927

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Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it," he said with deep bitterness. "I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a bitch. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A lost bird appeared in the court and was half an hour jumping around between the spikenard. It sang a progressive note, rising an octave at a time, until it became so acute that it was necessary to imagine it. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
...At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs. The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The captain gave the order to fire. Arcadio barely had time to put out his chest and raise his head, not understanding where the hot liquid that burned his thighs was pouring from. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him."
I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The usual for me." The usual was a strong infusion of different kinds of Oriental teas, which raised her spirits after her siesta. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes ad his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness, 'Damn it,' he sighed. 'How will I ever get out of this labyrinth! Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I understood that he was my host, though he only glanced at me and walked by, and I did not have the audacity to signal to him in any way. He hurried into the station and came out again minutes later with no expression of hope. At last he saw me and pointed with his index finger: "You're Gabito, right?" I answered him with all my heart: "Almost, now. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "The move to Arcata was seen by my grandparents as a journey..."
The move to Arcata was seen by my grandparents as a journey into forgetting. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner..."
The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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