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Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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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

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He who awaits much can expect little. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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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

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In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#believe #commitment #contrast #difference #entire

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. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#amuses #basis #biggest #caribbean #comes

People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.' ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#asked #been #cholera #clear #clearly

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' ↗

— Don Marquis

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