When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.
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.
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
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Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are.
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At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.
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A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
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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.
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Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.
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Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
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As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.
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But 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.
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Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.
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Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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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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For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
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