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All Quotes by author - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
" Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. "
Marriage
Good
Remember
" A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. "
Growing Old
Age
Man
" An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband. "
Bad
Spouse
Man
" A person doesn't die when he should but when he can. "
He
Die
Should
" Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me. "
Everything
Me
Mouth
" Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day. "
Bad
Goes
24 Hours
" Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing. "
Writing
Craft
Science
" Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. "
Whale
Late
Wife
" From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world. "
Leaf
World
Storm
" He who awaits much can expect little. "
Expect
He
Little
" I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him. "
Him
Afraid
Believe
" I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams. "
True
Believe
Book
" If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world. "
God
Time
He
" 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. "
Problems
Alone
Try
" Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors. "
Best
Doctors
Ever
" In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it. "
Commitment
Long
People
" 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. "
Truth
Truth Is
Work
" 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. "
People
Responsibility
Pride
" It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. "
People
Dreams
Grow
" Necessity has the face of a dog. "
Dog
Necessity
Face
" Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. "
Nobody
Tears
You
" No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing. "
Rich
Poor Man
Poor
" People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.' "
Writing
Life
Live
" She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. "
Children
She
Love
" The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good. "
Good
Bad
Memory
" The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary. "
Patterns
Reality
Free
" The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there. "
America
Me
Perspective
" The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. "
Breakfast
Morning
Must
" The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. "
Books
Know
Satisfied
" Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. "
Done
You
Key
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