The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire. — Michael Chabon
All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. — Milan Kundera
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. — Robertson Davies
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy
The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork. — William F. Nolan
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. — Dorothy Parker
No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over. — Eugene Field
There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time. — Kurt Vonnegut
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. — C. S. Lewis
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. — Janet Frame
The Notebook ... that’s my favorite one. I’ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love. — Kevin Gates
Only one book is worth reading: the heart. — Ajahn Chah
Short One Hundred Years Of Solitude Quotes
Books may well be the only true magic. — Alice Hoffman
In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust. — Oscar Wilde
A book is the only immortality. — Rufus Choate
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. — Francis Bacon
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. — Cornelia Funke
One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do it now.
My One And Only Quotes
I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander. — Alexander The Great
You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count. — Nancy Reagan
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about you.
I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one. — Nikola Tesla
There are so many religions and each one has its different ways of following God. I follow Christ:
Jesus is my God,
Jesus is my Spouse,
Jesus is my Life,
Jesus is my only Love,
Jesus is my All in All;
Jesus is my Everything. — Mother Teresa
I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travellers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry. — Dorothy Day
One bad chapter does not mean your story is over.
After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born. — Annie Oakley
Only one girl has ever really wrapped my stomach into pretzels. She didn’t give me butterflies. She gave me pterodactyls
I’m talking terrible internal bruising and the first time I kissed her was like the first time I saw fireworks, which was like the sky first kissing me in the eyeballs — George Watsky
My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you. — Sigmund Freud
People say i am a genius. I might be one but i am not the only one. There are many other Pakistani girls and boys like me. All those gems need, is a little bit of polishing. And I will do it. That's my aim — Arfa Karim
One For Me Quotes
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists — Jean Piaget
I'm here to impress only one man. He don't live here with us. He's on top. So that's all I'm concerned about. My work is not for the public or for man to view or make judgment on me, I work for one person. — Snoop Dogg
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to. — Jimi Hendrix
One of the most important decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one. — Crazy Horse
Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We. — Phil Jackson
There's a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn't very loveable. — Yasmin Mogahed
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go on further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself — Simone de Beauvoir
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind. — Nina Simone
Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down. — Jimmy Page
It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Through The Years Quotes
Shall I tell you what supported me through all those years of exile among a people whose language I could not understand and whose attitude towards me we always uncertain and often hostile? It was this: "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world". — David Livingstone
Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks. — Elbert Hubbard
The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho
Sometimes the strongest people are the ones who love beyond all faults, cry behind closed doors and fight battles that nobody knows about.
I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal. — Alexis Arguello
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. — Walter Scott
Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years. — Lillian Smith
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization. — Frederick Reines
I am a judge born, raised, and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice runs through the entirety of the Jewish tradition. I hope, in my years on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, I will have the strength and the courage to remain constant in the service of that demand. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I shall miss him dearly as a friend. He was a warm, considerate and generous man. — Frank Sinatra
When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process. — Rick Warren
Year Quotes
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. — Sigmund Freud
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' — Sigmund Freud
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. — Harriet Tubman
You have to be odd to be number one.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A year from now you may wish you had started today. — Karen Lamb
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live. — Dalai Lama
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character. — Antonin Scalia
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. — John Lennon
People Writing About One Hundred Years Of Solitude
A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship! — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls." — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There is always something left to love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Be calm. God awaits you at the door. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. — Francine Prose
He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants . — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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