8 Quotes by Gabriel Marquez

My vocabulary isn't very good. I have to keep looking up words in the dictionary.

Justice. . . limps along, but it gets there all the same.

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

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

The year 2005 was the first in my life when I did not write a single line.

It should make then ashamed if they don't arrive at anything this time.

...human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.