Gabriel García Márquez Quotes - Page 5

Dicen que soy un mafioso, porque mi sentido de la amistad es tal que resulta un poco el de los gánsteres: por un lado mis amigos y por el otro el resto del mundo, con el cual tengo muy poco contacto

The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you and know you can never have them.

But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children in their mothers' wombs are not announcements of ventriloquism or a faculty for prophecy but an unmistakable sign of an incapacity for love.

The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich.
“No, not rich,” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it...I do not. I believe the only essential thing is to be alive.- Abrenucio

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

Una mujer es como la buena literatura: al alcance de todos, pero incomprensible para los estúpidos.

A literatura era o melhor brinquedo que se tinha inventado para gozar com as pessoas

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...

Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung a cowbell around the girl's wrist so she would not lose track of her in the shadows of the house.

literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.

Ni el uno ni el otro tenían vida para nada distinto de pensar en el otro, para soñar con el otro, para esperar las cartas con tanta ansiedad como las contestaban.

... y esa mirada casual fue el origen de un cataclismo de amor...

...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.