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Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
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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All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.
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Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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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.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday.
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One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever.
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I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.
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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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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
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The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.
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An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.
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