Thinking Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

19 Thinking quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez weaves contemplation into his signature magical realism. The 19 excerpts capture a blend of wonder and insight, offering a lyrical glimpse into how imagination shapes our mental landscape.

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Always tell what you feel. Do what you think...

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That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .

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“And so she thought about him as she never could have imagined thinking about anyone...”

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“I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came…

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I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them…

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It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha…

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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…

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I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden…

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To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old,…

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In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now…

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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it…

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There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead,…

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It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the…

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Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not take any…

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Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her…

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What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the…

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Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human…

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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility…

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People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know…

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