Gabriel Garcia Marquez Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Gabriel Garcia Marquez:

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

He who awaits much can expect little.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Necessity has the face of a dog.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

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