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Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez 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 and one of the best 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 his 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; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.García Márquez started as a journalist, and wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude , The Autumn of the Patriarch , and Love in the Time of Cholera . 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 , and most of them explore the theme of solitude.

Upon García Márquez’s death in April 2014, Juan Manuel Santos, the President of Colombia, called him "the greatest Colombian who ever lived." Wikipedia  

✵ 6. March 1927 – 17. April 2014  •  Other names Gabriel José García Márquez
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Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

“Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Of Love and Other Demons

Source: Of Love and Other Demons

“I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 279, referring to Amaranta

“One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 282, said by Úrsula

“He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“It was a love of perpetual flight.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“Both looked back then on the wild revelry… and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Of Love and Other Demons

Source: Of Love and Other Demons

“I’ve remained a virgin for you.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Source: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

“He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.”

Gabriel García Márquez

Variant: I would prove to the men how mistaken they are in thinking that they no longer
fall in love when they grow old--not knowing that they grow old when they stop
falling in love.

“Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“I'll never fall in love again… it's like having two souls at the same time.”

Gabriel García Márquez book The General in His Labyrinth

Source: The General in His Labyrinth

“My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Of Love and Other Demons

Source: Of Love and Other Demons

“Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“… The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“For a week, almost without speaking,
they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous
reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Source: Crónica de una muerte anunciada

“It is life, more than death, that has no limits.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Chapter 10 http://books.google.com/books?id=pgPWOaOctq8C&amp;q=%22The+secret+of+a+good+old+age+is+simply+an+honorable+pact+with+solitude%22&amp;pg=PA199#v=onepage <br class="br">Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

“It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Of Love and Other Demons

Source: Of Love and Other Demons

“For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“He was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes ad his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness, 'Damn it,' he sighed. 'How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!”

Gabriel García Márquez book The General in His Labyrinth

Source: The General in His Labyrinth

“Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune moment”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“I go to seek a great perhaps”

Gabriel García Márquez book The General in His Labyrinth

Source: The General in His Labyrinth