Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 11:24AM
Drew Wolfe

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

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