Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quote
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, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root. There is no god worth worrying about.Let time pass and we will see what it brings.Humanity, like the armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.Those of us who make the rules have the greatest obligation to abide by them.I don't believe in God but I am afraid of him.It's better to arrive in time than to be invited.Unfaithful but not disloyal.Love, no matter what else it might be, is a natural talent.Nobody teaches life anything.The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.There is no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid and dangerous, than a poet.
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, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root. There is no god worth worrying about.Let time pass and we will see what it brings.Humanity, like the armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.Those of us who make the rules have the greatest obligation to abide by them.I don't believe in God but I am afraid of him.It's better to arrive in time than to be invited.Unfaithful but not disloyal.Love, no matter what else it might be, is a natural talent.Nobody teaches life anything.The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.There is no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid and dangerous, than a poet.
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About Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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."