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Said Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We…
- This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.
- With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at…
- What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling,…
- You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.
- When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.
- The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not…
- In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentina Ariza asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful Sunday afternoons, and…
- Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not…
- He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal…
- Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap.
- Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love with such an…
- He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.
- The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it…
- Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.
- Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by…
- Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me:…
- This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you…
- Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said…
- Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
- He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was,…
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- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
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- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going… — David Axelrod
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a… — Russell Baker
- I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was… — Alec Baldwin
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin
- All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a… — Christian Bale