Gabriel Garcia Marquez Biography
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-)
Colombian Novelist and Short-Story Writer Known for Magic Realism
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of South America’s most respected and famous writers. He is best known for One Hundred Years of Solitude, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982. Garcia Marquez is generally regarded as the greatest practitioner of “magic realism.”
The term “magic realism” refers, in particular, to works of South American novelists that describe happenings in the real world with excursions into the realm of fantasy. One of his popular books, Love in the
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Books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Leafstorm and other Stories, 1955
- No One Writes to the Colonel, 1958
- One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967
- The Autumn of the Patriarch, 1975
- In Evil Hour, 1979
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold, 1981
- Love in the Time of Cholera, 1985
- The General in his Labyrinth, 1989-1990
- Of Love and Other Demons, 1995
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Happiness is Happy-ness
Ever stopped to reflect that sometimes when we are in the midst of sadness about something, we are also happy about another? Indeed, life isn’t always black or white. Following this thought, then in this instance, we can’t say that we’re ‘totally’ sad, because happiness is simultaneously happening with sadness.
No one feeling is ever permanent unless we prefer to remain stuck. Well, I’d rather be stuck with being happy than the other way around. And you?
My random thoughts have been inspired by the film “The Pursuit of Happyness” starring Will Smith. What an inspiring, stimulating and heartwarming story. It’s a true story too, I understand.
“… You have a dream? Then go, get it!”
Obstacles? I usually see it as a setback to learn new things. Want to know something? I’m learning right now from this seeming setback as the day passes.
Still, go, claim (or reclaim) that dream!
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Cicero Quote On Friendship
Cicero says we need friendship – life, fire and water
The ancient Roman philosopher, statesman, and political theorist Cicero, although best known and considered as one of Rome’s greatest orators, also wrote treatises on friendship and old age, among others.
One of his famous quotes on friendship:
“Friendship, on the other hand,
serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time.
In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours.
No barrier can shut it out.
It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way.
We need friendship all the time,
just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.”
~ Cicero (106BC-43 BC) ~
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), was a Roman political figure, orator, and a philosopher. Although he exposed Julius Caesar, he took no part in the latter’s assassination. His work include De Amiticia (On Friendship). For more about the great Cicero, here’s his bio - Cicero’s Biography.
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Carpe diem – Seize the Moment
Life Quote from Philip Doddridge:
“Live, while you live,” the epicure would say,
“And seize the pleasures of the present day;”
“Live, while you live,” the sacred preacher cries,
“And give to God each moment as it flies.”
“Lord, in my views let both united be;
I live in pleasure, when I live to Thee.”
- Philip Doddridge, “Dum vivimus vivamus”,
lines written under the motto of his family arms
Philip Doddridge (26 June 1702 – 26 October 1751) was an English leader of a Nonconformist group, hymnwriter and an educator. He was a prolific writer whose best known book The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul was translated into seven languages. The famous Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon referred to this book as “that holy book”. Reading this book led the anti-slave trade campaigner William Wilberforce to become a Christian. He wrote theological works and New Testament commentary, and over 400 hymns.
Sources:
Immanuel ,Christian Hymn-writers ed Elsie Houghton, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Evangelical Press of Wales,Bridgend,Wales 1982.
The Baptist Hymn Book, Psalms and Hymn Trust, London,1982.
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