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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (/ɡɑːrˈsiːə ˈmɑːrkɛs/; American Spanish: [ɡaˈβɾjel ɣarˈsi.a ˈmarkes] ( listen); 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo [ˈɡaβo] or Gabito [ɡaˈβito] throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century and one of the best in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.

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She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone.

Sunday, Revelations, Instruments, Violen, Everyone

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

Became, Finals, Memories, Memory, Perverse, Years

Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

Flower, Flowers, Relation, Santiago, Smell

If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.

Cocky, Highly, Lie, Lying, Square, Squares

Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough

Consolation, Enough, Love, Sex

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

Believe, Usual, Believing Him, God, Afraid

He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

Considered, Death, Hazard, Hazards, Professional, Unavoidable

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

Agreeable, Fame, Goes On, Hours

Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.

Admitted, Circles, Evidence, Passing, Time

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

Casualties, Casualty, Firsts, Freedom, War

Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

Becomes, Calamity, Greater, Love Is, Nobler

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Birthday, Graduation, Inspiring, People, Stop, True

I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.

Love Is, Thinking, Opposites, Essential, Opposite, Ideology

. . . The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.

Century, Eye, Girl, Half, Raised, Romantic

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

Fall, Falling In Love, Love, Sad, Your Smile

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

Beings, Bird, Die, Four, Human, Would Be

I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.

Constantly, Method, Read, Rewrite, Thing, Thinking

One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.

People, Sorrow, Cholera, Betray, Several

There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.

Age, Cholera, Dangerous, Innocence

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

Clever, Everyone, Secret, Three

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