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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Profession: Novelist
Nationality: Colombian

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That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.

The colonel, pursued by sinister remorse for having killed a man in an affair of honor, brought everything necessary for recreating the past as far away as possible from his bad memories.

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

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

A lost bird appeared in the court and was half an hour jumping around between the spikenard. It sang a progressive note, rising an octave at a time, until it became so acute that it was necessary to imagine it.

America is half a world gone mad.

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.

He was surprised to discover that when rich people were starving they looked so much like the poor.

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