Macondo Well Quotes

#1. I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.

Mandy Patinkin

#2. What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.

Phylicia Rashad

#3. There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.

David Lloyd-Jones

#4. New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely.

Jerry Saltz

#5. I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

John Zorn

#6. 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.

Edmund White

#7. Forgiveness in the heart comes about when the walls of separation in the mind fall.

Deepak Chopra

#8. He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#9. Conchpore is real. It is as real as Malgudi, Brahmpur, Lilliput or Macondo. And also as real as San Francisco, Madurai, Edinburgh, Gaborone or Tokyo. You know that fictional towns exist. You visit them all the time.

Indu Muralidharan

#10. It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.

Paul Valery

#11. While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

Mark Zuckerberg

#12. Tex looked at Duke "She's got spunk," he said.
"Where I come from, we call it sass," Duke replied.
"Where I come from, we call it attitude," Smithie put in.
"Oh for the love of God, whatever you call
it, are you in or are you out?" Jules clipped.

Kristen Ashley

#13. Marquez was not born in Colombia.
He was born in Macondo,
And his Macondo is his La Mancha.

Dejan Stojanovic

#14. From the moment I met you, I never stood a chance of not falling in love with you. I never stopped loving you, so there was no need to fall back in love with you. I just had to let myself feel again.

Melissa Foster

#15. I think that in the space between birth and death you can have one life, or you can have many. But in order to have many, you also need the strength to end the one that came before. And there lies the tricky part.

L. H. Cosway

#16. Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#17. I'm nothing without God.

Taraji P. Henson

#18. I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.

Roger Bannister

#19. I have to get my will in order. I have to get the Macondo Foundation going. I want to invest the money and resources that I've gotten from working so hard so that it's shared and it has its life beyond me.

Sandra Cisneros

#20. It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alteration between excitement and disappointment, doubt and revelation, to such an extreme that no one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#21. The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible.

Frederick Lenz