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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Age: 87 †
Born: 1927
Born: March 6
Died: 2014
Died: April 17
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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.
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A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.
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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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A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like.
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As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.
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You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
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When I wake up, he said, remind me that I'm going to marry her.
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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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There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.
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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.
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