“Until you're about the age of twenty you read everything, and you like it simply because you are reading it. then between twenty and thirty you pick up what you want, and you read the best, you read all the great works.
after that you sit and wait for them to be written. But you know the least know, the least famous writers, they are the better ones.”
― Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez
after that you sit and wait for them to be written. But you know the least know, the least famous writers, they are the better ones.”
― Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez
“To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.”
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“Who can ever hold the essence of fire?
Who can ever know the alchemy of desire?”
― The Alchemy of Desire
Who can ever know the alchemy of desire?”
― The Alchemy of Desire
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
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