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Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Age, Odor, Disease

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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to
receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Daughter, Regret, Thinking

"Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 339, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.

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It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.

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Dream, Thinking, Years

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One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Despite, Without Love

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What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Thinking, Doe, Very Sad

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Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm.

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Kissing, Destiny, Hands

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The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Lust, World, Unusual

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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

Dog, Sunday, White

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In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.

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Long, Everyday, Usual

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Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Way, Persons, Dies

"Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.theguardian.com. 1985.

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Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Talking, Doe

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No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Years, Forever, Matter

"Memories of My Melancholy Whores". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.newyorker.com. 2004.

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Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reality, Imagination, Caribbean

"Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 322, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.

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It is impossible to explain. But what I like most is to eat.

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Impossible

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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Humorous, Doctors, Medicine

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Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.

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Solitude, Cost, Paradise

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I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.

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Memories, Fighting, Want

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Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Sadness, Thinking, Pieces

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.339, Penguin UK

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he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

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Lust, Veins, Hips

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As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.

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Untamed, Body, Heat

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Memories of My Melancholy Whores”, p.44, Penguin UK

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Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

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Bird, Would Be, Four

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When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Book, Writing, Underwear

FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Apr 02, 2013

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He governed as if he felt predestined to never die

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Autumn, Felt, Dies

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And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were the ones left with the terror that he would never return. That was their life. Love, if it existed, was something separate: another life.

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Fear, Love Life, Men

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Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Angel, Trying, Coins

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Born: March 6, 1927
Died: April 17, 2014
Occupation: Novelist
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