Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.
García Márquez, Gabriel. Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Translated by Gregory Rabassa, Alfred A. Knopf, 1982, p. 65.
Commenting on the wisdom of offering the Serbs the relaxation of economic sanctions to reduce the atrocities in Bosnia:
Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo [ˈɡaβo] or Gabito [ɡaˈβito] 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; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.