Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love. Gabriel Garcia Marquez More Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez More Quotes From Gabriel Garcia Marquez The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. Gabriel Garcia Marquez giving night years An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path. Gabriel Garcia Marquez sunday dog white There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was. Gabriel Garcia Marquez body hands thinking Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed. Gabriel Garcia Marquez conservative drs president It was a love of perpetual flight. Gabriel Garcia Marquez perpetual flight An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes. Gabriel Garcia Marquez gold dream memories If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky. Gabriel Garcia Marquez cocky squares lying He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter Gabriel Garcia Marquez bananas enough war And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love. Gabriel Garcia Marquez floating everyday reality his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera. Gabriel Garcia Marquez pain desire feelings I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and talked to myself in front of the mirror in the vain hope of confirming who I was. My delirium was so great that during a student demonstration complete with rocks and bottles, I had to make an enormous effort not to lead it as I held up a sign that would sanctify my truth: I am mad with love. Gabriel Garcia Marquez rocks mirrors clouds Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. Gabriel Garcia Marquez carpentry literature I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before. Gabriel Garcia Marquez responsibility writing fall The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there. Gabriel Garcia Marquez latin europe country Nobody teaches life anything. Gabriel Garcia Marquez teach From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world. Gabriel Garcia Marquez storm trying world Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day. Gabriel Garcia Marquez hours goes-on fame Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity. Gabriel Garcia Marquez calamity greater love-is The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary. Gabriel Garcia Marquez patterns literature reality Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world. Gabriel Garcia Marquez real fame world
