Never stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZNever stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZAs a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZWhen I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZBut he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZBut when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZCrazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZIf you’re going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones. After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZA true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZBut that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZJust because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZWherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThis 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 MáRQUEZIt 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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZNo, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZOld people, with other old people, are not so old.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZNobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ