Garcia Quotes

“It is life, more than death, that has no limits.

Love becomes greater and nobler and mightier in calamity.

We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice. But when a women decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root. There is no god worth worrying about.

Let time pass and we will see what it brings.

Humanity, like the armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

Those of us who make the rules have the greatest obligation to abide by them.

I don't believe in God but I am afraid of him.
It's better to arrive in time than to be invited.

Unfaithful but not disloyal.

Love, no matter what else it might be, is a natural talent.

Nobody teaches life anything.

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

There is no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid and dangerous, than a poet.

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

One comes into the world with a predetermined allotment of lays and whoever doesn't use them for whatever reason, one's own and someone else's, willingly or unwillingly, looses them forever.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

“Speaking more generally about what attracted him to bluegrass banjo, he said it was 'just the sound of the instrument, and then the fire, you know; the speed and all that. I was attracted by the intensity of it, really. And I was drawn to that incredible clarity-- when something is going along real fast and every note is absolutely clear. That, to me, was really amazing-- the Earl Scruggs instrumentals...' But Garcia refused to commit himself to just one style of music. Though bluegrass became his overriding obsession for about two years, he still dabbled in folk, old-timey and blues whenever the opportunity arose and there were players around.”
― Blair Jackson, Garcia : An American Life

“It seemed to him that life's true tragedy was to lift up one's voice among the living and be met with indifference.”
― Cristina Garcia, Monkey Hunting: A Novel

“Hunter he had these big tins of crushed pineapple that he'd gotten from the army,' Garcia said, 'and i had this glove compartment full of plastic spoons, and we had this little cooperative scene, eating this crushed pineapple day after day and sleeping in the cars and walking around.”
― Blair Jackson, Garcia : An American Life

“We’ve got DNA tests; we can convict someone by his saliva. Hell, if the killer had farted in that house the forensic team would probably have some gadget that could pick it up. How can the crime scenes be so clean?”
― Chris Carter, The Crucifix Killer