Gabriel Garcia MarquezLife is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it ✨ Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). Living to Tell the Tale, p.6, Penguin UK<… ▶372Life
Gabriel Garcia MarquezIn that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude o… ▶372LoveReading
Gabriel Garcia MarquezThe only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.361Humanity
Gabriel Garcia MarquezEven when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.351Reading
Gabriel Garcia MarquezShame has poor memory.362Politics
Gabriel Garcia MarquezA man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.351Love
Gabriel Garcia MarquezHer heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.362LoveTruth
Gabriel Garcia MarquezLittle by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by their inscriptions but that no on… ▶374Death
Gabriel Garcia MarquezShe would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pots and eat a little of everything without placing anything on a plate, standing … ▶341Reflection
Gabriel Garcia MarquezBefore reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped ou… ▶352ReadingTime
Gabriel Garcia MarquezShe always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dar… ▶341Time
Gabriel Garcia MarquezIt 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.352LovePoliticsThought
Gabriel Garcia MarquezHe recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more… ▶352DeathLifeLove
Gabriel Garcia MarquezA person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground. ✨ Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.18, Penguin UK374Death
Gabriel Garcia MarquezThe truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. ✨ The Conversation - Kurosawa and Garcia Marquez. arti… ▶374ReadingTimeTruth
Gabriel Garcia Marquezi discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an order… ▶364ThoughtTime
Gabriel Garcia MarquezThe 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… ▶342HumanityPolitics
Gabriel Garcia MarquezI discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life… ▶331LifeReading
Gabriel Garcia MarquezA true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart. ✨ Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.331LoveTruth
Gabriel Garcia MarquezUltimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.342ReadingTruth
Gabriel Garcia MarquezI never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure th… ▶321DeathTimeTruth
Gabriel Garcia MarquezIt was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to c… ▶343DeathLifeLove
Gabriel Garcia MarquezThe only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to… ▶343LifeThoughtTime
Gabriel Garcia MarquezHe would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and d… ▶376LoveTime
Gabriel Garcia MarquezI plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.321Time
Gabriel Garcia MarquezThe weak would never enter the kingdom of love.332Love
Gabriel Garcia MarquezOld people, with other old people, are not so old.343Humanity
Gabriel Garcia MarquezShe would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.343Sadness
Gabriel Garcia MarquezIt always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in r… ▶376Truth
Gabriel Garcia MarquezDeath really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia. ✨ FaceBook pos… ▶343DeathLifeReading
