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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Topics: Cry Deserves Make Nobody Tears Them Whoever Will You Your

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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Topics: Because Dreams Grow Old People Pursuing Stop True

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I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Topics: About Alone America Break Centuries Cliches Fought Latin Latin America Must Nothing Other Our Outsiders Over Problems Reality Superpowers Through Try Us Ways

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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Topics: Happens How Life Matters Remember You

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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Topics: Arrived Because Been Day Days Fiction Had He His Home Invented Late Swallowed Three Whale Wife

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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Topics: Both Carpentry Hard Just Literature Material Nothing Reality Ultimately Wood Working You

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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Topics: Finish God Had He Rested Sunday Time World Would

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Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Topics: Aspect Astounding Books Craft Craftsmanship Faulkner Had Hemingway His Knowledge Most Much My Soul Science Simply Soul Who Writer Writing

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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

Topics: Best Could Leaf Left Me Moment Nobody Only Realized Stop Storm The Only Thing Thing Try Wanted World Writer Wrote

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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Topics: Because Begins Father Growing Growing Old He His Knows Like Look Man Old

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Biography

Nationality: Colombian

Type: Novelist

Born: March 6th, 1927

Died: April 17th, 2014

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