Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“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.”

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

“The hearts memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.”

“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”

“If God hadnt rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.”

“Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.”

“...human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”

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

“He who awaits much can expect little.”

“The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.”

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

“All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.”

“Out of the most secure things, the most secure is to doubt.”

“When everyone is thinking the same, no one is thinking.”

“War itself is the enemy of the human race.”

[A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love ones children just because they are ones children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability.

While a person does not give up on sex sex does not give up on the person.

The hearts memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.