"Life in the world... was nothing more than……" — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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337 Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez has 337 quotes on this site.
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He who awaits much can expect little.
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It's much more important to write than to be written about.
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Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
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Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and…
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Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country...
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He governed as if he felt predestined to never die
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Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not…
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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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Necessity has the face of a dog.
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Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write…
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When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I…
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Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
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More Atavistic Quotes
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To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain…
— Norman Lamm
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Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind…
— Winston Churchill
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I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as…
— John Keegan
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
— Don DeLillo
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It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a…
— Antonin Artaud
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Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.
— Howard Blum
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In Italy, above all in view of the next general election, political parties, movements and new politicians continue to proliferate,…
— William C. Brown
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Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me,…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.
— Penelope Lively
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Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind…
— Winston Churchill
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I'm not a very violent dude, and if something can be settled without any physicality, I'm always in favor of…
— Stephen Moyer
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