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Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a renowned Colombian novelist and a leading figure in the magical realism literary movement. His works, characterized by a unique blend of reality and fantasy, have won him widespread acclaim. His most famous novel, 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', is considered a masterpiece of Latin American literature.

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“In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.”

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Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter.”

Ifs Thinking Problem Would Be Life Is Regret Terrible Fame Daughter Absolutes Prize Catastrophe Deserving Nobel Nobel Prize Life Regret Having A Daughter Deserving It

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.”

Thinking Trying Love Is Essentials Eternal Opposites Burden Ideology Misfortunes True Love Is

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“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 Thinking Writing Ideas Political Certain Fall Responsibility Pride Involved

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“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.”

Thinking Should Persons Doe Said Dies Very Sad Colonels

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was.”

Thinking Stills Body Hands Sensuality Elegant Disturbed Foreheads Sleepers

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.”

Author: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.”

Thinking Mean Ends States Teach Grace Romantic Alphas Cholera Alpha And Omega Aging Process

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself. Florentino Ariza, Love in the Time of Cholera”

“I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.”

Thinking Book Reason Easy Various

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.”

Thinking Years Dream Felt Waiting Letters Impatience Cholera

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love...”

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Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.”

Thinking Stills Pieces Sadness Solitary Weeping Console Charcoal

Book:One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.”

Thinking Method

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .”

Thinking Doe Reason

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not take any decision for us that did not have our measure, for he had not survived everything because of his inconceivable courage or his infinite prudence but because he was the only one among us who knew the real size of our destiny.”

Thinking Real Decision Destiny Knowing Infinite Size Autumn Dedicated Survived Our Destiny Prudence

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow 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.'”

People Thinking Knows Writing Years Has Beens Seems Wish Clear My Friends Lifetime Could Have Been Cholera Writing Love

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.”

Thinking I Can Film Novel Good Films

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

About the Author

Born: March 6, 1927
Died: April 17, 2014
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 368

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