"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father." ~Gabriel García Márquez
"Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom.” ~Gabriel García Márquez
“But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.” ~Gabriel García Marquez
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves " ~Gabriel García Márquez
“I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.” ~from LIVING TO TELL THE TALE by Gabriel García Márquez
“I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.” ~From Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
"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." ~From The Paris Review Interviews, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69. The author spoke in mostly Spanish, and his two sons shared in translating.
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams” ~Gabriel García Márquez
"Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving." ~Gabriel García Márquez — in Mexico.
"Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it." ~From Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez
"No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had." ~Gabriel García Márquez
"No, success is something I don´t wish on anybody. It´s like what happens to mountain climbers; they kill themselves to get to the top and when they get there, what do they do? Climb down, or try to do so, discreetly, with as much dignity as possible." ~Gabriel García Márquez — in Mexico City, Mexico
"One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship." ~ Úrsula from ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel García Márquez
"The memory of the heart eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; thanks to this artifice, we are able to bear the past." ~Gabriel García Márquez
"The secret of good old-age is none other than an honest pact with solitude." ~Gabriel García Márquez
"The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows." ~Gabriel García Márquez
"The writer writes his book to try to explain to himself what’s beyond his comprehension."~Gabriel García Márquez
“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.” ~One Hundred Years of Solitude (RIP Gabriel García Márquez April 18, 2014)
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BIOGRAPHY
Gabriel García Márquez was born on March 6, 1927 in the town of Aracataca, Colombia.
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