“Put you in this pickle. Ch. 5.”
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“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works. Ch. 4.”
“By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece. Ch. 4.”
“Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows. Ch. 4.”
“Y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio. Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. Ch. 1 (tr. Samuel Putnam).”
“En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no hace mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor. In some village in La Mancha, whose name I do not care to recall, there dwelt not so long ago a gentleman of the type wont to keep an unused lance, an old shield, a skinny old horse, and a greyhound for racing. Ch. 1.”
“They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.”
“I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.”
“...estás en tu casa, donde eres señor della, como el rey de sus alcabalas. You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.”
“Acontece tener un padre un hijo feo y sin gracia alguna, y el amor que le tiene le pone una venda en los ojos para que no vea sus faltas, antes las juzga por discreciones y lindezas y las cuenta a sus amigos por agudezas y donaires. A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.”
“You can't make facts fit the rules, it is the other way round. The rules have to be adopted to fit the facts.”
“We all believe in the regulations, but you have to know how to interpret them.”
“When you start having bad luck, there isn't an end to it.”
“Every thing is done halfway in Peru, and that is why everything goes wrong.”
“He is always furious, on account of what he finds out or what he doesn't find out.”
“Lima frightened him, it was too big, you could lose yourself in it and never find your way home; the people on the street were total strangers.”
“It is easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.”
“Political correctness is the enemy of freedom because it rejects honesty and authenticity. We have to tackle it as the distortion of the truth. Interview , El País , 27/02/2018”
“Mario Vargas Llosa compara al peronismo con los nazis y lo culpa de destruir Argentina”
“Ahora tenemos un peronismo que es todo: es la extrema derecha, es el centro, es el centro izquierda, es la extrema izquierda, es la democracia y es el terrorismo, es la demagogia y es la insensatez... Todo es el peronismo... Now we have Peronism that is everything: it's the far right and its the center, it's left centrist and is also extreme leftist, it is democracy and is also terrorism, its demagogy is also insanity...Peronism is everything.”
“Okay, I won't be famous until tomorrow,”
“I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise. p. 336”
“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. p. 325”
“Interviewer: You describe seemingly fantastic events in such minute detail that it gives them their own reality. Is this something you have picked up from journalism? García Márquez: That's a journalistic trick which you can also apply to literature. If you say that there are elephants flying in the sky, people are not going to believe you. But if you say that there are four hundred and twenty”
“In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think. p. 322”
“It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. p. 322”
“I decline to accept the end of man.”
“The Cataclysm of Damocles”
“Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed”
“...a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth ... The Autumn of the Patriarch . HarperCollins. 2006 [1976]. p. 254. ISBN 978”