868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, what's the rest of it?

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

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

It had never occurred to him until then that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.

Fermina Daza n'était plus la fille unique à la fois soumise et tyrannisée par son père,mais la maitresse et la dame d'un empire de poussière et de toiles d'araignée que seule la force d'un amour invincible pourrait remettre debout.

In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who had been favorites at different times.

We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice. But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

I am condemned to a theatrical destiny.

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...