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.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (Latin American Spanish: [ɡaˈβɾjel ɣaɾˈsi.a ˈmaɾ.kes] ; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, 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 that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign 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 One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) which sold over fifty million copies, 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.
Upon García Márquez's death in April 2014, Juan Manuel Santos, the president of Colombia, called him "the greatest Colombian who ever lived."