Gabriel Garcia Marquez Top 10 Quotes


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He who awaits much can expect little.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (No One Writes to the Colonel, 1961)

9

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (The General in His Labyrinth, 1989)

8

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

7

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Love in the Time of Cholera, 1985)

6

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (In Evil Hour, 1962)

5

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

4

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

3

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Love in the Time of Cholera, 1985)

2

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Love in the Time of Cholera, 1985)

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There is always something left to love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967)

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Biography

Born: March 6, 1926

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a Colombian novelist and writer. He is widely recognized as being one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. His masterpiece is regarded to be the novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude"

Notable Works

One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (1970)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
The General in His Labyrinth (1989)
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