Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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It is life, more than death, that has no limits.Love becomes greater and nobler and mightier in calamity.We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice. But when a women decides to sleep with a man, the...

It is life, more than death, that has no limits.Love becomes greater and nobler and mightier in calamity.We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice. But when a women decides to sleep with a man, the...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (Latin American Spanish: [ɡaˈβɾjel ɣaɾˈsi.a ˈmaɾ.kes] ; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo ([ˈɡaβo]) or Gabito ([ɡaˈβito]) throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education, eventually leaving law school to pursue a career in journalism. From the beginning, he was outspoken in his criticism of both Colombian and international politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
García Márquez started as a journalist and wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories. He is best known for his novels, such as No One Writes to the Colonel (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), which has sold over fifty million copies worldwide, Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style known as magic realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his works are set in the fictional village of Macondo (mainly inspired by his birthplace, Aracataca), and most of them explore the theme of solitude. He is the most-translated Spanish-language author.
In 1982, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts". He was the fourth Latin American writer to receive the honor, following Chilean poets Gabriela Mistral (1945) and Pablo Neruda (1971), as well as Guatemalan novelist Miguel Ángel Asturias (1967). Alongside Jorge Luis Borges, García Márquez is regarded as one of the most renowned Latin American authors in history.
Upon García Márquez's death in April 2014, Juan Manuel Santos, the president of Colombia, called him "the greatest Colombian who ever lived."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

It is life, more than death, that has no limits.Love becomes greater and nobler and mightier in calamity.We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice. But when a women decides to sleep with a man, the...

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Me estrechó la mano y se despidió con una frase que lo mismo podía ser un buen consejo que una amenaza:Cuídese mucho.

Le rogó a Dios que le concediera al menos un instante para que él no se fuera sin saber cuánto lo había querido por encima de las dudas de ambos, y sintió un apremio irresistible de empezar la vida co...

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice...

Me parece contra natura que un hombre se entienda mejor con su perro que con su esposa, que lo enseñe a comer y descomer a sus horas, a contestar preguntas y compartir sus penas.

Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it. I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a bitch. - Captain Roque Carnicero

«Todo el mundo dice que la muerte es una mujer», siguió diciendo la mujer. Era corpulenta, más alta que su marido, y con una verruga pilosa en el labio superior. Su manera de hablar recordaba el zumbi...

He had not stopped desiring her for a single instant. He found her in the dark bedrooms of captured towns, especially in the most abject ones, and he would make her materialize in the smell of dry blo...

Hasta los desperdicios del amor triste de las ciudades nos llegaron en la hojarasca y construyeron pequeñas casas de madera, e hicieron primero un rincón donde medio catre era el sombrío hogar para un...

En cambio, es un triunfo de la vida que la memoria de los viejos se pierda para las cosas que no son esenciales, pero que raras veces falle para las que de verdad nos interesan. Cicerón lo ilustró de...

Open the windows and the doors, she shouted, cook some meat and fish, buy the largest turtles around, let strangers come in and spread their mats in the corners and urinate in the rose bushes and sit...

La memoria del corazón elimina los malos recuerdos y magnifica los buenos, y que gracias a ese artilugio logramos sobrellevar el pasado.

Tobías lo encontró escarbando en la arena, con la boca llena de espuma y se asombró de que los ricos con hambre se parecieran tanto a los pobres

Había estado en la muerte, en efecto, pero había regresado porque no pudo soportar la soledad.

Science has eliminated distance.

Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors,

Elle lui rappela que les faibles jamais n'entreraient au royaume de l'amour, qui est un royaume inclément et mesquin, et que les femmes ne se donnent qu'aux hommes de caractère car ils leur communique...

Each grape she pulled off grew back again on the cluster. In the dream it was evident that the girl had spent many years at that infinite window trying to finish the cluster, and was in no hurry to so...

We are the orphans of our son.