Quotes of the Week - Oct 12, 2008:
"Your company is now bankrupt, our economy is now in a state of crisis,
but you get to keep $480 million. I have a very basic question for you:
Is this fair?" -- Henry Waxman, chairman of US House Oversight Committee,
questioning Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld over bank's collapse.
"Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so
imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their
own country." -- Sarah Palin, accusing Barack Obama of associating
with Bill Ayers, founder of Weather Underground, which was involved in
several bombings in early 1970s.
"We can solve this crisis — and we will." -- US President
George Bush, on economic crisis.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude Quotes, Famous Quotations, Sayings
Many
years later, as he faced the firing squad, General Aureliano
Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father
took him to discover ice. One Hundred Years of Solitude Opening words of novel
At
that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built
on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of
polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric
eggs. The world was so recent that many things lacked names,
and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point. One Hundred Years of Solitude
They
felt that they had been the victims of some new and showy gypsy
business and they decided not to return to the movies, considering
that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep
over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings. One Hundred Years of Solitude The people of Macondo, whose mayor proclaimed
the movies were not real and the cinema was 'a machine of illusion'
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 alternation between excitement and disappointment,
doubt and revelation, to such an extreme that no one knew for
certain where the limits of reality lay. It was an intricate
stew of truths and mirages that convulsed the ghost of José
Arcadio Buendía with impatience and made him wander all
through the house even in broad daylight. One Hundred Years of Solitude
The
only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is
that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives
at eight. One Hundred Years of Solitude Colonel Aureliano Buendia
The
world must be all fucked up when men travel first class and
literature goes as freight. One Hundred Years of Solitude Catalan bookstore owner in Macondo
Carmelia
Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom
water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed
when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined
to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him,
to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but
the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had
been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards. One Hundred Years of Solitude
He
[Aureliano II ] had already understood that he would never leave
that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or
mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the
memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia
would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything
written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever
more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude
did not have a second opportunity on earth. One Hundred Years of Solitude Last words of novel
Love
in the Time of Cholera: The 1985 novel was written by Columbian author
Gabriel Gárcia Márquez. Márquez was born on March
6, 1928. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
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