Wednesday, April 23, 2014

A few thoughts from Gabriel García Márquez


Cal Fussman, who writes the “What I’ve Learned” column for Esquire, has pulled together a wonderful collection of quotes from Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian writer who died on April 17. What follows are my favorites from the list, which you can read in its entirety here. 

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

The day shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an asshole.

A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

How strange women are.

Literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

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