It is 91 years since the birth of the Colombian writer.
He stood out for his controversial phrases full of surreal adjectives.
García Márquez was a revolutionary of the language, who came to ask for the suppression of grammar and spelling.
This Tuesday March 6 marks 91 years since the birth of the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. The author of such emblematic works as 'El amor en tiempos de cholera' was born on March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, northern Colombia and died at the age of 87 in Mexico City. Known as 'Gabo', he was a writer, journalist and screenwriter, as well as a cultural agitator by conviction and father of "magical realism" in literature.
Among all his work highlights 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' (1967), one of the peaks of universal literature, translated into 35 languages and which have sold more than 30 million copies. But 'Gabo' was not just a great writer. He was a member of the Colombian Academy of Language, promoter of the Foundation of New Latin American Cinema, based in Havana (1985) and the New Ibero-American Journalism Foundation (1994), as well as a language revolutionary, who even asked for the suppression of grammar and spelling.
All these famous phrases by Márquez are a summary of his thoughts, concerns and unforgettable moments of the Colombian writer.
The only thing that hurts me to die is that it's not love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Intellectual creation is the most mysterious and solitary of human trades.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Actually, the only time in life when I feel I am myself is when I am with my friends.
The writer writes his book to explain to himself what can not be explained.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
We do not have another world to which we can move.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Love is as important as food, but it does not feed.
Life is not what you lived, but what you remember, and how you remember it to tell it.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
No person deserves your tears, and whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
There is no medicine that heals what does not cure happiness.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
It puzzles me so much to think that God exists, as it does not exist.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
The worst way to miss someone is to be seated next to them and know that you can never have them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
No place in life is sadder than an empty bed.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Human beings are not born forever on the day their mothers light them, but life forces them to give birth to themselves again and again.
The most important thing I learned to do after forty was to say no when it is not.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
You have to be unfaithful, but never disloyal.
