Colombian - Novelist | March 6, 1927 - April 17, 2014
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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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.
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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.
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
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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.
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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.
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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
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