Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

"nothing in this world was more difficult than love."
81 Quotes
"nothing in this world was more difficult than love."
Gabriel García Márquez
"Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.."
Gabriel García Márquez
"He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."
Gabriel García Márquez Love in the Time of Cholera
"The world must be all fucked up, he said then, when men travel first class and literature goes as freight."
Gabriel García Márquez
"my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house"
Gabriel García Márquez
"“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”"
Gabriel García Márquez
"I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone."
Gabriel García Márquez
"She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."
Gabriel García Márquez
"It 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 reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination."
Gabriel García Márquez
"Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability."
Gabriel García Márquez
"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."
Gabriel García Márquez
"Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing."
Gabriel García Márquez
"In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it."
Gabriel García Márquez
"i 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 ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature."
Gabriel García Márquez
"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past."
Gabriel García Márquez
"While a person does not give up on sex sex does not give up on the person."
Gabriel García Márquez
"The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability."
Gabriel García Márquez
"[A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."
Gabriel García Márquez
"“nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”"
Gabriel García Márquez
"No medicine cures what happiness cannot."
Gabriel García Márquez
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