Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.
quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Nothing has happened in Macondo, nothing has ever happened, and nothing ever will happen. This is a happy town.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), translated by Gregory Rabassa
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Dr. Juvenal Urbino: I'll have plenty of time to rest when I die, but this eventuality is not yet part of my plans.
classic line from the novel Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1985), translated by Edith Grossman
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I would sleep less, dream more, understanding that for each minute we close our eyes, we lose sixty seconds of light.
classic quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, does not mean they don't love you with all their heart.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 13 Lines to Live By
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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the novel Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
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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.
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