War Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

16 War quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez blends magical realism with the starkness of battle. In sixteen evocative lines, his prose captures the surreal undercurrents of war, making the ordinary feel extraordinary.

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“It is easier to start a war than to end it.”

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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“The only wars here will be civil wars, and those are like killing your own mother.”

Gabriel García Márquez

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Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities…

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“Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it," he said with deep bitterness. "I was born a son of a bitch and…

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“And normality was precisely the most fearful part of that infinite war: nothing ever happened.”

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“You can't come in, colonel," she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my…

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“...Aureliano sympathized with the Liberal attitude with respect to the rights of natural children, but in any case, he could not understand…

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“HE had fled from her in an attempt to wipe out her memory, not only through distance but by means of a…

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“But he recovered in a few hours, and as soon as his mind had cleared, he threw them out of the house…

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“What worries me is that out of so much hatred for the military, out of fighting them so much and thinking about…

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He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place,…

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He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough:…

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“Iturbide exclaimed: "Don't frighten me, General!" "Don't be frightened," said the General in a calm voice. "Go to Mexico, even if they…

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“There was always someone outside of the chalk circle. Someone who needed money, someone who had a son with whooping cough, or…

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“Everyone will have gone then except us, because we're tied to this soil by a roomful of trunks where the household goods…

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