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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.
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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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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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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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.
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She felt the abyss of disenchantment.
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It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
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Only God knows how much I love you.
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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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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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races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
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A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
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For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.
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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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There had never been a death so foretold.
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