All Quotes
2989 quotes in total
“You have committed one of the greatest stupidities”
“Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it. Letter to Lou Andreas”
“Fyodor Dostoyevsky”
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. Crime and Punishment (1866)”
“Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth. The Brothers Karamazov (1880)”
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
“Man is what he believes.”
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
“In the end, people will judge you by your actions, not by your intentions.”
“...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”
“Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed”
“The Cataclysm of Damocles”
“I decline to accept the end of man.”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. p. 325”
“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”
“Okay, I won't be famous until tomorrow,”
“Fragment from "Palabras Serenas”
“Piececitos de niño, Dos joyitas sufrientes, ¡Cómo pasan sin veros Las gentes! Little feet of children, two tiny suffering jewels, how can people pass and not see you!”
“The German, Polish, or Lithuanian Jew has been deprived of the sacred right to escape and be free.”
“It would be foolish for our America to latch onto the filthy tail of this antisemitic campaign. We have enough to do in our own nations”
“Hunt? the Jewish dog for being an infidel.”
“Let's not ask our countries to accept a massive number of desolate Jewish immigrants. But let's do ask that they”
“Message about the Jews,”
“Translation by Albert Van Helden in Sidereus Nuncius (Chicago, 1989), 62”