212 quotes found
“Shame has poor memory.”
“Do not allow me to forget you”
“Be calm. God awaits you at the door.”
“Hate and love are reciprocal passions.”
“I am condemned to a theatrical destiny.”
“There is always something left to love.”
“In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it li...”
“Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of...”
“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.”
“It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The proble...”
“She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”
“I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are ...”
“[A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”
“The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability.”
“While a person does not give up on sex sex does not give up on the person.”
“The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.”
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
“He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more...”
“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, wh...”
“nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”
“Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.”
“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”
“He is ugly and sad... but he is all love.”
