Gabriel García Márquez quote: "Mi vida estuvo siempre perturbada por una maraña de trampas, gambetas e ilusiones para burlar los incontables señuelos que trataban de convertirme en cualquier cosa que no fuera escritor."

She almost never left her bedroom, and when she did she was nude or wearing a silk tunic with nothin...
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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to ...
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nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stom...
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But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indif...
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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 w...
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sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love
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Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
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Ella encontró siempre la manera de rechazarlo porque aunque no conseguía quererlo, ya no podía vi...
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It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babil...
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Siempre pensé que morir de amor solo era una licencia poética.
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Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found l...
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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on...
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wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or ...
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To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they g...
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Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the pa...
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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
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Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery ...
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Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that...
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Remember that everything that is good, whatever it's origin, comes from the holy spirit.
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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't la...
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She felt the abyss of disenchantment.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.
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i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right t...
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It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
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En aquel mundo opresivo en el que nadie era libre, Sierva María lo era: sólo ella y sólo allí.
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He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, an...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I d...
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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that dist...
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One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Many displayed in their nudity traces of their past: scars of knife thrusts in the belly, starbursts...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

It is not that the girl is unfit for everything; it is that she is not of this world.
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One never quite stops believing,' said the Marquis. 'Some doubt remains forever.' Abrenuncio underst...
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You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it...I do no...
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One must not believe demons even when they speak the truth.
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When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, what's the rest o...
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Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strang...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning
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Siempre había pensado que dejar de creer causaba una cicatriz imborrable en el lugar donde estuvo l...
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Así se reanudó una amistad prohibida que por lo menos una vez se pareció al amor. Hablaban hasta ...
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Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be th...
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«¿Y mientras tanto?», preguntó el marqués.
«Mientras tanto», dijo Abrenuncio, «tóquenl...
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Ningún loco está loco si uno se conforma con sus razones.
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Aren't you afraid you will be damned?'
'I believe I already am, but not by the Holy Spirit,' sa...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the...
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I live in fear of being alive.
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Ella le preguntó por esos días si era verdad, como decían las canciones, que el amor lo podía to...
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He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy ...
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No hay medicina que no cure lo que no cura la felicidad.
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What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe i...
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Le dijo que el amor era un sentimiento contra natura, que condenaba a dos desconocidos a una depende...
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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.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is t...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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Do not allow me to forget you
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house
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Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said.

‘That is too bad, because lack o...
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Cease, cows, life is short.
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They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.
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There is always something left to love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

For a week, almost without speaking,
they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of g...
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A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, conti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Tell me something, old friend: why are you fighting?"
What other reason could there be?" Colone...
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On rainy afternoons, embroidering with a group of friends on the begonia porch, she would lose the t...
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Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they under...
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Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de r...
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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.
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He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the h...
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Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but whi...
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Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of...
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Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, t...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that ro...
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What does he say?' he asked.
'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that y...
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He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
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and both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal realit...
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Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted awa...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

The Widow Nazaret never missed her occasional appointments with Florentino Ariza, not even during he...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

I don't have to say so because people can see it from leagues away. I am ugly, shy and anachronistic...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

1) I love you not for whom you are,
but who i am when i'm by your side.
2) No person deser...
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To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not u...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord b...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, be...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late becaus...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, y...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

الخدمة أغلى ثمنًا كلما كانت أكثر عرضة للعقاب
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...ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía.
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Una mujer es como la buena literatura: al alcance de todos, pero incomprensible para los estúpidos.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...
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Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
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Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life...
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.
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Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.
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She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

That is not true, but we lack the moral authority to endorse them (acts of euthanasia). What we do i...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Me desconcierta tanto pensar que Dios existe, como que no existe.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Он действительно побывал на том свете, но не смог вынес...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

أن عزلة المصعد من أكثر العزلات ترويعًا
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt ever...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Without a doubt it was Dr. Urbino's most contagious initiative, for opera fever infected the most su...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

He knew that she was to have an elaborate wedding, and the being who loved her most, who would love ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right t...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they st...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

The type he preferred was the opposite: those skinny little tadpoles that no one bothered to turn ar...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand acro...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

The usual for me." The usual was a strong infusion of different kinds of Oriental teas, which raised...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Most of the times it's healthier to start over in a different way, or throw it away.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

siguió evocando hasta el amanecer las excelencias del marido, sin reprocharle otra deslealtad que l...
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My God, this is longer than sorrow!
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—wh...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her,...
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أن النساء يفكرن بالمعنى الخفي للأسئلة أكثر من تفكيرهن �...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's ...
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She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sak...
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Only God knows how much I love you.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: t...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt witho...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

He is ugly and sad... but he is all love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Hay un minuto en que se agota la siesta. Hasta la secreta, recóndita, minúscula actividad de los i...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Al salir del velorio había movido una taza vacía frente a mí. Había dicho: «He leído su suerte...
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I’ve remained a virgin for you.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Il parvint à la reconnaitre au milieu du tumulte et, à travers les larmes de sa douleur irrémédi...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Elle avait supplié Dieu de lui concéder au moins un instant afin qu'il ne s'en allât pas sans sav...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

So for now wave good-bye leave your hands held high
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Florentino Ariza always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudencia Pitre more than any...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

ثمة خوف يعذبني على الدوام من أنّ الطائرة ستسقط
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It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
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Era ancora troppo giovane per sapere che la memoria del cuore elimina i brutti ricordi e magnifica q...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always f...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Elle lui semblait si belle, si séduisante, si différente des gens du commun qu'il ne comprenait pa...
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The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet.
"May God have mercy on you," he said. And er...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

At the beginning of the road into the swamp they put up a sign that said MACONDO and another larger ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it. I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Science has eliminated distance.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

It is easier to start a war than to end it.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Bătrânețea este o stare indecentă care trebuie oprită la timp.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Time put things in their place.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

If you have to go crazy, please go crazy all by yourself!
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«Какой сегодня день?» - Аурелиано ответил ему, что втор�...
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أيها الجبان. الأسوأ كان قد انقضى
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Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Most of those who could have done something to prevent the crime and did not consoled themselves wit...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Open the windows and the doors, she shouted, cook some meat and fish, buy the largest turtles around...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

If I died now," he said, "you would hardly remember me when you are my age."
He said it for no ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Dadme un prejuicio y moveré el mundo.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

The only thing that [Amaranta] did not keep in mind in her fearsome plan was that in spite of her pl...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

El chófer me previno: Cuidado, sabio, en esa casa matan. Le contesté: Si es por amor no importa.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

İnsanın oturduğu toprakların altında ölüleri yoksa, o adam o toprağın insanı değildir.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
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Damn it,' he sighed. 'How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

But when they changed their plans time and time again, the dates became confused, the periods were m...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we ca...
CRISTINA GARCíA

Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he'll...
CRISTINA GARCíA

There is good news tonight.
GABRIEL HEATTER

I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identi...
GABRIEL BYRNE

I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me,...
GABRIEL BYRNE

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in tha...
GABRIEL BYRNE

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alon...
GABRIEL BYRNE

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the reali...
GABRIEL BYRNE

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to fi...
GABRIEL BYRNE

I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
GABRIEL BASSO

You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazin...
GABRIEL BASSO

I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
GABRIEL BASSO

I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Loui...
GABRIEL BASSO

I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
GABRIEL BASSO

Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half...
GABRIEL BASSO

I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't...
GABRIEL BASSO

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going t...
GABRIEL BASSO

Mi vida estuvo siempre perturbada por una maraña de trampas, gambetas e ilusiones para burlar los incontables señuelos que trataban de convertirme en cualquier cosa que no fuera escritor.

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Gabriel García Márquez

Mi vida estuvo siempre perturbada por una maraña de trampas, gambetas e ilusiones para burlar los incontables señuelos que trataban de convertirme en cualquier cosa que no fuera escritor.

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