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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: "Shame has poor memory."
Shame has poor memory. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "I tell myself now, that ever since I was little my sense of..."
I tell myself now, that ever since I was little my sense of social decency has been more developed than my sense of death. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One never quite stops believing,' said the Marquis. 'Some doubt remains forever.' Abrenuncio understood. He had always thought that ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's faith had been, making it impossible to forget. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "How strange women are."
How strange women are. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "There had never been a death so foretold."
There had never been a death so foretold. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "They were so close to each other that they preferred death to..."
They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. “No, not rich,” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They did not speak of it the first night, when they spoke of everything until dawn, nor would they ever speak of it. But in the long run, neither of them had made a mistake. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her..."
She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it . Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you..."
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They showed me that it was not necessary to demonstrate facts: it was enough for the author to have written something for it to be true, with no proof other than the power of his talent and the authority of his voice. It was Scheherazade all over again—not in her millenary world, where everything was possible, but in a irreparable world, where everything had already been lost. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Then she told him to look in the bedroom and Aureliano Segundo saw the mule. Its skin was clinging to its bones like that of its mistress, but it was just as alive and resolute as she. Petra Cotes had fed it with her wrath, and when there was no more hay or corn or roots, she had given it shelter in her own bedroom and fed it on the percale sheets, the Persian rugs, the plush bedspreads, the velvet drapes, and the canopy embroidered with gold thread and silk tassels on the episcopal bed. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it..."
You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "A man knows when he is growing old cuz he begins to look like..."
A man knows when he is growing old cuz he begins to look like his father . Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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