Quotes About Macondo

#1. 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

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

Dejan Stojanovic

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. '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

#6. If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become ... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'?

Muriel Barbery

#7. My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Lucinda Williams

#8. Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.

Tim Buckley

#9. Time gnaws and wears away; it separates; it flies. And by virtue of separation--by separating man from his pain or from the object of his pain--time cures.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#10. Marriage is a shared sacred life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Lets toil under the sun to build poles of love. And let our roots be planted like strong trees that strong winds can't move.

Auliq Ice

#12. I had to learn how to drive a cement truck because there is a whole car chase with cement trucks, so I had to learn how to drive a cement truck. I don't like these things, but I'm not an idiot. I can do it.

Christoph Waltz

#13. In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

Hanna Rosin

#14. These are the Disciplines that can change everything!

Mark Mullins

#15. Reality is a challenge.

Auliq Ice

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#17. Spending time to learn and to gather better information is what we do most in our lives. We go to school, spend time there, and learn things important in our life. We do this only for one reason, to be happy.

Auliq Ice

#18. If you have not done anything worthy of being recorded, at least write something worthy of being read.

Giacomo Casanova

#19. it's hard to remember that the outside and the inside of people are two very different things.

Eleanor Moran

#20. When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.

Adyashanti