If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezHorses frighten me as much as chickens do,โ he said. โThat is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,โ said Abrenuncio. โIf we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezThat's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .
Gabriel Garcia MarquezThis was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezFor you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezEverything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his absence in the dressing table mirror, his own odor on her skin. A vague thought made her shudder: "The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez