Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito 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...
NationalityColombian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 March 1927
CountryColombia
Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.
More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.
Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.
but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.
Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.
He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.
Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
In the end all books are written for your friends.
He who awaits much can expect little.