"Living to Tell the Tale" Quotes
A vivid and lyrical memoir that explores the early life and formative experiences of Gabriel García Márquez, one of Latin America's greatest writers.
nonfiction | 496 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.
Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
A person doesn't choose the time or the place, but he chooses to die with dignity.
I am not a communist, but I have been in the Communist Party, and I loved all my comrades.
I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
