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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes about Reality

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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.

When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Power, Reality, Contact

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Relationship, Reality, World

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

Reality, Imagination, Doe

"Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 322, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.

Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself. Florentino Ariza, Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love, Mean, Reality

FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Sep 15, 2014

She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Heart, Reality, Blow

The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reality, Soul, Generations

The only everyday and eternal reality was love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love, Reality, Everyday

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harold Bloom (2009). “Gabriel Garci ́a Ma ́rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.30, Infobase Publishing

Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Latin, Reality, America

"The Yellow Trolley Car in Barcelona, and Other Visions" by William Kennedy, www.theatlantic.com. January 1973.

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reality, Literature, Woods

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

Latin, Reality, Break Through

Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reality, Emotional, Fire

And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reality, Everyday, Floating

In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reality, Keys, House

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.332, Penguin UK

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

Reality, Literature, Patterns

Gabriel García Márquez's Nobel Prize acceptance speech on the role of a writer, www.farnamstreetblog.com. 1982.

Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reality, Imagination, Caribbean

"Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 322, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reality, Probability, Permanent

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Love in the Time of Cholera”, p.36, Penguin UK

Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Heart, Blow, Reality

Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reality, Letters, Slipping

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