Gabriel García Márquez on life
Gabriel García Márquez104 quotes“You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.”
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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. ‘It is true’, he replied, ‘but you would do well not to believe it.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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