"Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a……" — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can."
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337 Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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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My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel,…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
— Pamela Anderson
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The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over…
— Yakubu Gowon
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Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen…
— Minnie Pearl
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Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I…
— Peter Fonda
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I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown…
— Anthony Bourdain
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The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest…
— Karl Marx
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Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by…
— Agatha Christie
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The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.
— Charles Taylor Manatt
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Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown…
— Anthony Eden
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