“Years later he would add that Italians have “no other aim than to live” because they “discovered a long time ago that there is only one life and that certainty has made them allergic to cruelty.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
“The trick is to make time—not steal it—and produce the fiction. If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.”
― Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work
― Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work
“Gabito would say later that he had no memory of his mother. She had left him before he could retain any memories at all.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
“When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
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wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
―
“Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán de García had given birth to three more children since that time and this was her first return to Aracataca since her husband, Gabriel Eligio García, took her away to live in Barranquilla, leaving little “Gabito” in the care of his maternal grandparents,”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
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