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Living to Tell the Tale QUOTES

Living to Tell the Tale QUOTES

1 " I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading. "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Living to Tell the Tale

2 " The audacious telegraph operator took the flower from his buttonhole and said to her: "I give you my life in this rose. "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Living to Tell the Tale

3 " The only certainty was that they took everything with them: money, December breezes, the bread knife, thunder at 3 in the afternoon, the scent of jasmines, love. All that remained were the dusty almond trees, the reverberating streets, the houses of wood and roofs of rusting tin with their taciturn inhabitants, devastated by memories. "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Living to Tell the Tale

4 " They entrenched themselves in their preferences, their beliefs, their prejudices, and closed ranks against everything that was different "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Living to Tell the Tale

5 " La nostalgia, como siempre, había borrado los malos recuerdos y magnificado los buenos. "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Living to Tell the Tale

6 " I soaked the conversations up like a sponge, pulled them apart, rearranged them to make their origins disappear, and when I told them to the same people who had told the stories earlier, they were bewildered by the coincidence between what I said and what they were thinking. "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Living to Tell the Tale

7 " Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that tried to turn me into anything but a writer. "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Living to Tell the Tale

8 " I understood that he was my host, though he only glanced at me and walked by, and I did not have the audacity to signal to him in any way. He hurried into the station and came out again minutes later with no expression of hope. At last he saw me and pointed with his index finger: "You're Gabito, right?" I answered him with all my heart: "Almost, now. "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Living to Tell the Tale

9 " Gabito isn't deceiving anyone," she said with an innocent smile, "but sometimes it happens that even God needs to make weeks that are two years long. "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Living to Tell the Tale

10 " But in the days that followed I realized he was only what he seemed: a giant baby with a heart too big for his body. "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Living to Tell the Tale

11 " ...Macondo Esta palabra me había llamado la atención desde los primeros viajes con mi abuelo, pero sólo de adulto descubrí que me gustaba su resonancia poética. "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Living to Tell the Tale

12 " The move to Arcata was seen by my grandparents as a journey into forgetting. "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Living to Tell the Tale

13 " The colonel, pursued by sinister remorse for having killed a man in an affair of honor, brought everything necessary for recreating the past as far away as possible from his bad memories "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Living to Tell the Tale

14 " Each thing, just by looking at it, aroused in me an irresistible longing to write so I would not die. I had suffered this on other occasions, but only on that morning did I recognize it as a crisis of inspiration, that word, abominable but so real, that demolishes everything in its path in order to reach its ashes in time. "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Living to Tell the Tale

15 " For years it seemed to me that this period had become a recurrent nightmare that I had almost every night, because I would wake in the morning feeling the same terror I had felt in the room with the saint. During my adolescence, when I was a student at an icy boarding school in the Andes, I would wake up crying in the middle of the night. I needed old age without remorse to understand that the misfortune of my grandparents in the house in Catasa was that they were always mired in their nostalgic memories, and the more they insisted on conjuring them, the deper they sank. "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Living to Tell the Tale

16 " Until I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading. "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Living to Tell the Tale

17 " Escaped the torments of memory with the aromatic fumes of gold cyanide "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Living to Tell the Tale

18 " tedio de mis horas libres encontró remedio por una razón del corazón: el que no canta no puede imaginarse lo que es el placer de cantar. "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Living to Tell the Tale

19 " miedo, y no sólo de enfrentarme a mis fantasmas, sino miedo de todo. "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Living to Tell the Tale

20 " La vida no es la que uno vivió, sino la que uno recuerda y cómo la recuerda para contarla. "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Living to Tell the Tale