Gabriel-garcia-marquez Quote by No One Writes to the Colonel Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the…

— Anne Brontë

“although in truth her passivity was calculated, because she knew passivity inflamed him. He had her, and to some extent she wanted to be…

— Jonathan Franzen

“He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing…

— T.H. White

“And if he were really to do good he would have needed in addition to his principles, a heart capable of violating them -…

— Boris Pasternak

“He felt that his mind had become a battle-ground for the forces of good and evil and that his task was to strain every…

— Lawrence Durrell

“But he is only stunned by the unvanquishable difficulty of his existence.”

— Charles Dickens

“It gave him the same odd sense of dislocation, though; that sense of losing some valuable part of himself that could not survive the…

— Diana Gabaldon

“He thought about how sometimes people's greatest sacrifices were the ones they didn't want the world to acknowledge or even to know about. Maybe…

— Amy Lane

“Things were not as they seemed. The known world was shifting, reforming. Everything he’d taken as a given, a fact, as real and unquestioned,…

— Louise Penny

“Because he refused to adopt a defeatist attitude, he overcame the obstacles in his path.”

— James C. Dobson

“Even I would be moved by his kindness at times, but he could, just as easily, be malicious and cruel. He was both a…

— Haruki Murakami

“His way was like other people's; he mounted no high horse; he was just a man and a citizen. He indulged in no Socratic…

— Arthur Quiller-Couch