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Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?
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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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.
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You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.
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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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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.
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To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.
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Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
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It is impossible to explain. But what I like most is to eat.
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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.
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To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love...
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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.
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wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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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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Children's lies are signs of great talent.
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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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This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.
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She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.
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Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.
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One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.
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