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Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.”

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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. more

“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.”

Thinking Knows Writing Years Book Ends Problem Eye Millions Written Reader Solitude Hundred Upset One Hundred Years Of Solitude

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“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.”

Kind Has Beens Book Country Turns Capitalist Merchandise

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.”

Men Years Book Fields Corn Good Faith Old Books

Author:Geoffrey Chaucer

“Death is the end of every worldly pain.”

Ends Pain Death Worldly

Book:Canterbury Tales (selected)