Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Age: 87 †
Born: 1927
Born: March 6
Died: 2014
Died: April 17
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Publisher
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
LA
California
Gabriel José García Márquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez
Gabriel Jose de la Concordia Garcia Marquez
Kind
Capitalist
Would
Countries
Like
Turn
Least
Books
Turns
Posthumously
Book
Merchandise
Country
Recognized
More quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He was carrying a suitcase with clothing in order to stay and another just like it with almost two thousand letters that she had written him. They were arranged by date in bundles ties with colored ribbons, and they were all unopened.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Only God knows how much I love you.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fatality makes us invisible.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Children's lies are signs of great talent.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I’ve remained a virgin for you.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There had never been a death so foretold.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
