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She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Use, Should, Stills

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Love in the Time of Cholera”, p.300, Penguin UK

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He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dog, Cat, Animal

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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

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Voice, Bones, Lost

"One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967.

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Jealousy knows more than truth does.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Doe, Knows

"Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Flower, Orange, Long

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It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.

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Distance, Ocean, Voice

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Necessity has the face of a dog.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dog, Faces

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Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Acceptance, Doors, Calm

"Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Months, Firsts, Difficult

FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Mar 09, 2015

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The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Goes On, Firsts, Truth Is

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but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Solitude, Found, Terrible

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You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Said, Colonels

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.124, Penguin UK

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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

Country, Keys, Needs

Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Soul, Age, Weakness

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Cease, cows, life is short.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Life Is Short, Cows, Life Is

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When he went through the kitchen he kissed Rebeca on the forehead. "Get those bad thoughts out of your head," he told her. "You're going to be happy.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Kitchen, Bad Thoughts, Foreheads

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I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Thinking, Method

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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

Inspiring, Memories, Heart

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Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Book, Writing, Soul

"Gabriel Garcia Marquez Meets Ernest Hemingway" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.nytimes.com. July 26, 1981.

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It's much more important to write than to be written about.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

"One Hundred Years of Solitude: The Death of Magic Realism". Interview with Paul Haeder, dissidentvoice.org. April 18, 2014.

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He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Goodbye, Hands, Advice

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There is no greater glory than to die for love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Romantic, Glory, Cholera

"Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Latin, Reality, America

"The Yellow Trolley Car in Barcelona, and Other Visions" by William Kennedy, www.theatlantic.com. January 1973.

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For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

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Long, Together, Enough

"Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.nytimes.com. 1985.

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To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Oppression, Abandonment

Gabriel García Márquez's Nobel Prize acceptance speech on the role of a writer, www.farnamstreetblog.com. 1982.

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Born: March 6, 1927
Died: April 17, 2014
Occupation: Novelist
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