He thought that the
He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
…they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Old people, with other old people, are not so old. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The old – like children – talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one’s beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one’s secrets are one’s own! Eugene O’Neill
I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something … Read more
People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn’t write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech. When I started writing, I thought [the language] was telling the story of this country: old people in a young nation, very religious, very conservative, very tight-assed, but also very anarchistic, very open-minded. … Read more
When I’m sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs. Ernest Gaines