Living to Tell the Tale is the first volume of the autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez.
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Living to Tell the Tale
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
Variant: Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.
“… my unhealthy timidity might be a great obstacle to me in my life.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Living to Tell the Tale
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
“… no sooner had you done something than someone else appeared who threatened to do it better.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Living to Tell the Tale
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
“Now you don't have to say yes because your heart is saying it for you.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Living to Tell the Tale
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
“I couldn't tell you because even I don't know who I am yet.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Living to Tell the Tale
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
“… nothing was easy, least of all surviving Sunday afternoons without love.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Living to Tell the Tale
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
“Before adolescence, memory is more interested in the future than the past…”
Gabriel García Márquez book Living to Tell the Tale
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
“Because for you, quitting smoking would be like killing someone you love.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Living to Tell the Tale
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
“Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away bad memories and magnified the good ones.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Living to Tell the Tale
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
“Children's lies are signs of great talent.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Living to Tell the Tale
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
