As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZYou 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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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.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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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.
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The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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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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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
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For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
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Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
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We’ll grow old waiting.
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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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.
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Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
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When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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