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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Colombian
Novelist
Born:
Mar 6
,
1927
Died:
Apr 17
,
2014
Believe
Love
Man
Me
People
Reality
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Dreams
People
Old
Pursuing
True
Because
Stop
Grow
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Life
You
Remember
Matters
How
Happens
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Reality
Free
Own
Interpretation
Unknown
Our
Solitary
More
Only
Through
Make
Patterns
Us
Less
Ever
Serve
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love
Friendship
Great
Delight
She
Because
Does
Discovered
Just
Children
Just Because
Formed
While
Them
Raising
He who awaits much can expect little.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He
Expect
Little
Much
Who
Awaits
Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Me
Mouth
Everything
Out
Seems
Make
Goes
Fat
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You
Reality
Nothing
Carpentry
Both
Material
Ultimately
Just
Wood
Literature
Working
Hard
People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Life
Love
Time
Me
People
Writing
My Life
Wish
Live
Thinking
Spend
Would
About
Seems
Could
Lifetime
No-One
Clear
Clearly
Like
Know
How
Been
Years
Friends
Very
Asked
Really
Cholera
Now
Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Best
Doctors
Invented
Feeding
Injections
Ever
Thing
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Man
Age
Old
Father
He
Like
Look
Knows
Because
His
Begins
Growing
Growing Old
Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You
Key
Country
Those
Tell
Tricks
Folk
Unbelievable
Something
Journalism
Learned
Reporters
Done
Transform
Which
Straight
Fantastic
Appears
Plausible
Credible
Need
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love
Morning
Marriage
Problem
Before
Breakfast
Every
Must
Making
Ends
The Problem With
After
Rebuilt
Every Night
Night
A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He
Person
Die
Should
An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Good
Man
Husband
Bad
Spouse
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Happiness
Good
Marriage
Remember
Important
Good Marriage
Most
Most Important Thing
Always
Important Thing
Stability
The Most Important
Thing
From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Best
Me
World
Try
Only
Could
Writer
Nobody
Leaf
Wrote
Left
Stop
The Only Thing
Wanted
Storm
Realized
Moment
Thing
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Truth
Truth Is
Few
Satisfied
Books
Know
Been
Very
Screen
Who
Novelists
Adaptation
It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Work
Truth
Me
Truth Is
Reality
Problem
Single
Imagination
Caribbean
Wildest
All My Work
Does
Always
Praise
Line
Biggest
While
Resembles
Basis
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Alone
Reality
Try
Problems
Nothing
Other
Our
Latin
Latin America
Ways
Must
About
Superpowers
Through
Outsiders
Over
Cliches
America
Break
Centuries
Us
Fought
The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Me
Perspective
Important
Met
Differences
Gave
Latin
Latin America
Latin American
Paris
Through
Between
Countries
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
America
American
Taught
The Most Important
Themselves
Europe
Among
Thing
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