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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.
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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The 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 him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.
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Nobody teaches life anything.
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Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
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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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What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
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Necessity has the face of a dog.
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I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.
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I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.
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Hate and love are reciprocal passions.
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wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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We'll grow old waiting.
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The 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 choosing its president.
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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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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.
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All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.
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For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened.
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The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.
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