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
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.
nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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.
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house
...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...
Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
