Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

Most popular Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

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 quote.
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

family parenting

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez in The Paris Review

literature

Justice ... limps along, but it gets there all the same. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote.
Justice ... limps along, but it gets there all the same.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez Evil Hour

justice

Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote.
Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez Memories of My Melancholy Whores

sex

He has done more than anyone for the Spanish language since Cervantes. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote.
He has done more than anyone for the Spanish language since Cervantes.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez in The New York Times
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote.
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude

old age solitude

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote.
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez in The New York Times

fame

A mother discovers 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 quote.
A mother discovers 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
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote.
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

memory