Dr. Urbino Quotes

#1. What worried Dr. Urbino most about dying was the solitary life Fermina Daza would lead without him.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#2. Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#3. I understood this man was a Saint," he said.
"Something even rarer," said Dr. Urbino, "An atheistic saint. But those are matters for God to decide.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#4. Dr. Urbino replied without looking at her: "I did not know that fellow was a poet." And then he wiped him from his memory, because among other things, his profession had accustomed him to the ethical management of forgetfulness.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#5. Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#6. Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.

Barry Manilow

#7. Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Susan Sontag

#8. That is how they were: they spent their lives proclaiming their proud origins, the historic merits of the city, the value of its relics, its heroism, its beauty, but they were blind to the decay of its years. Dr Juvenal Urbino, on the other hand, loved it enough to see it with the eyes of truth.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#9. Thackeray's a good writer and Flaubert is a great artist. Trollope is a good writer and Dickens is a great artist. Colette is a very good writer and Proust is a great artist. Katherine Anne Porter was an extremely good writer and Willa Cather was a great artist.

Truman Capote

#10. What I want to know is what in the world so many Democrats are doing supporting the President's unilateral intervention in Iraq?

Howard Dean

#11. You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.

Al-Ghazali

#12. God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

Camille Pissarro

#13. Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate.

Nitin Sawhney

#14. Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.

Sun Tzu