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Gabriel García Márquez

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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late becaus...
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
That could have been the whale that swallowed Jonah.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was s...
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The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on...
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Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish t...
BIBLE
Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the bel...
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He had swallowed his tongue and was blue. I saw the collision and knew that he was going to be uncon...
MARK JONES
We walked straight home because the one person in my party was sprayed so badly he had to go home im...
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He had all three of his pitches working and had some key strikeouts with runners on base. He pitched...
MIKE SHIMEK
It was shocking because his mother called me and told me he was in a terrible accident. I didn't kno...
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The woman said she arrived in Cancun on December 27 and that day met a man named Brad staying at a C...
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JORDI ARRESE
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I saw quite a bit of (Gable) there. He was still at loose ends because of the death of his wife, but...
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That was the turning point for Jeremy. After Pat was killed, he began to dwell on things. He visited...
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He was very, very excited about the idea of coming home and being with his wife and the baby.
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Not only did he do that and win a national championship in the process at Texas Western, he became a...
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You know," Cecily said, "you really didn't have to throw that man through the window."
"He wasn...
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Detective Inspector Eccles sighed. He may ordinarily have met his sigh with the question of why the ...
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He was hanging his head, his coat wouldn't turn - it was almost like he was depressed, ... Richard d...
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Patrick was on his way to see his father and so was I -- a bit too late. That's when he had the acci...
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It's a big deal for him because now he knows how good he is. He was extremely happy after he won. He...
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My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go any...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
Albus Dumbledore didn’t seem to realize that he had just arrived in a street where everything from...
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It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayer...
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I was very happy with the last three days of it. The first 10 or 12 days, he was sluggish. He missed...
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The first day I arrived, they told me to go home and get rid of that cold.
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Reggie looks good walking across the parking lot. I always told him even if he got hurt playing foot...
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It was his home now. But it could not be his home till he had gone from it and returned to it. Now h...
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He came back, but I thought he was a little out of sync early. Late, he was attacking the basket (la...
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He spoke often of his wife and his children. He was definitely a family man.
GINNY DYCHE
he’d spent his whole life trying to make God love him—and that this didn’t matter in the sligh...
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That was before the three-point line. He was a tremendous jumper for his height. He could dunk a vol...
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He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided...
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He had a trial by jury and that was his peers in his community,
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DEREK WILLIAMS
Bob Novak called me before he went to print with the report and he said a CIA source had told him th...
JOE WILSON
The doctors told us if he had not been in such good shape, he wouldn't have made it. He was in the h...
BONNIE GRIGGS
Anything he claims to have invented, he didn't. He's a science fiction writer.
ROBERT SHILLMAN
He came in my office one day and had this sheepish look on his face, like there was something on his...
JEFF PYLE
The minister had just returned from a swim and was getting inside his home when he was shot.
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Shamu and I have arrived safely in Costa Rica. He was stopped by airport security because he carries...
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I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroo...
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His contribution has been first-class, and he is unlucky not to have scored more. His presence and h...
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Stanley lived on his own for many years after his wife passed away. Stanley had a cat that was his c...
JULIE ODIL
We had a three-month trial. The jury took two weeks in deciding that Robert Blake killed his wife. T...
ERIC DUBIN
He told me he was sorry about my son, and that he made a mistake. I told him that I understood that....
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All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had ...
JULIET MARILLIER
His huff arrived and he departed in it.
ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT
He had a wonderful, wry sense of humor and was very independent and very devoted to his wife and his...
LILLIAN HANSEN
Father . . . ," Gabriel began. "Father is a worm."
Will gave a short laugh. He was in gear as i...
CASSANDRA CLARE
It was kind of weird. He told my dad about it and he told me. I was sending out the resumes and this...
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I saw a chap run on to the train, ... He was running so fast he half sort of tripped. He was being p...
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Most of the times it's healthier to start over in a different way, or throw it away.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
siguió evocando hasta el amanecer las excelencias del marido, sin reprocharle otra deslealtad que l...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
My God, this is longer than sorrow!
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—wh...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her,...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
أن النساء يفكرن بالمعنى الخفي للأسئلة أكثر من تفكيرهن �...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sak...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Only God knows how much I love you.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: t...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt witho...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
He is ugly and sad... but he is all love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Hay un minuto en que se agota la siesta. Hasta la secreta, recóndita, minúscula actividad de los i...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Al salir del velorio había movido una taza vacía frente a mí. Había dicho: «He leído su suerte...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
I’ve remained a virgin for you.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Il parvint à la reconnaitre au milieu du tumulte et, à travers les larmes de sa douleur irrémédi...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Elle avait supplié Dieu de lui concéder au moins un instant afin qu'il ne s'en allât pas sans sav...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
So for now wave good-bye leave your hands held high
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Florentino Ariza always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudencia Pitre more than any...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
ثمة خوف يعذبني على الدوام من أنّ الطائرة ستسقط
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Era ancora troppo giovane per sapere che la memoria del cuore elimina i brutti ricordi e magnifica q...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always f...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Elle lui semblait si belle, si séduisante, si différente des gens du commun qu'il ne comprenait pa...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet.
"May God have mercy on you," he said. And er...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
At the beginning of the road into the swamp they put up a sign that said MACONDO and another larger ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it. I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Science has eliminated distance.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
It is easier to start a war than to end it.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Bătrânețea este o stare indecentă care trebuie oprită la timp.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Time put things in their place.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
If you have to go crazy, please go crazy all by yourself!
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
«Какой сегодня день?» - Аурелиано ответил ему, что втор�...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
أيها الجبان. الأسوأ كان قد انقضى
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Most of those who could have done something to prevent the crime and did not consoled themselves wit...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Open the windows and the doors, she shouted, cook some meat and fish, buy the largest turtles around...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
If I died now," he said, "you would hardly remember me when you are my age."
He said it for no ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Dadme un prejuicio y moveré el mundo.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
The only thing that [Amaranta] did not keep in mind in her fearsome plan was that in spite of her pl...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
El chófer me previno: Cuidado, sabio, en esa casa matan. Le contesté: Si es por amor no importa.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
İnsanın oturduğu toprakların altında ölüleri yoksa, o adam o toprağın insanı değildir.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Damn it,' he sighed. 'How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
But when they changed their plans time and time again, the dates became confused, the periods were m...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we ca...
CRISTINA GARCíA
Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he'll...
CRISTINA GARCíA
There is good news tonight.
GABRIEL HEATTER
I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identi...
GABRIEL BYRNE
I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me,...
GABRIEL BYRNE
I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in tha...
GABRIEL BYRNE
It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alon...
GABRIEL BYRNE
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the reali...
GABRIEL BYRNE
Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to fi...
GABRIEL BYRNE
I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
GABRIEL BASSO
You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazin...
GABRIEL BASSO
I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
GABRIEL BASSO
I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Loui...
GABRIEL BASSO
I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
GABRIEL BASSO
Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half...
GABRIEL BASSO
I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't...
GABRIEL BASSO
I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going t...
GABRIEL BASSO