"The truth is that I know very..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them.”

“The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight.”

“In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.”

“A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.”

“I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.”

“We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.”

“What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.”

“The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.”

“Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable”