Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian novelist and short story writer
| Date of Birth | : | 06 Mar, 1927 |
| Date of Death | : | 17 Apr, 2014 |
| Place of Birth | : | Aracataca, Colombia |
| Profession | : | Writer, Short Story, Novelist |
| Nationality | : | Colombian |
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez 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, particularly 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 leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
Quotes
Total 20 Quotes
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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.
sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
There is always something left to love.
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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.
