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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

Gabriel Garcia Marquez quotes

Colombian Novelist March 6, 1927

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Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when forced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She lay on her back in bed for a long time thinking and when she returned to school an hour early she was beyond all desire to cry and she had sharpened her sense of smell along with her claws so that she could track down the miserable whore who had ruined her life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought of Rebeca, because solitude had made a selection in her memory and had burned the dimming piles of nostalgic waste that life had accumulated in her heart, and had purified, magnified, and eternalized the others, the most bitter ones. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Cease, cows, life is short."
Cease, cows, life is short. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Each thing, just by looking at it, aroused in me an irresistible longing to write so I would not die. I had suffered this on other occasions, but only on that morning did I recognize it as a crisis of inspiration, that word, abominable but so real, that demolishes everything in its path in order to reach its ashes in time. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In a sudden inspiration, Florentino Ariza opened a can of red paint that was within reach of the bunk, wet his index finger, and painted the pubis of the beautiful pigeon fancier with an arrow of blood pointing south, and on her belly the words: This pussy is mine. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of..."
it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "The audacious telegraph operator took the flower from his..."
The audacious telegraph operator took the flower from his buttonhole and said to her: "I give you my life in this rose. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "It is life, more than death, that has no limits."
It is life, more than death, that has no limits. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her..."
The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that..."
Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the..."
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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