#ma

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#musicians #need #perform #repertoire #romantic

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

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#because #begins #father #growing #growing old

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#eliminates #good #heart #magnifies #memory

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#good #husband #man #spouse

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

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#embarrasses #everything #fat #goes #into

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

#certain #created #did #even #ever

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

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

— Don Marquis

#ask #got #hard #hard work #him

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing. ↗

— Don Marquis

#bartender #before #by the time #drink #else