"No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had."

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Source : Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Memories of My Melancholy Whores”, p.59, Penguin UK

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.”
“I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“This a sacred rule we find Among the nicest of mankind, (Which never might exception brook From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,) To doubt of facts, however true, Unless they know the causes too.”
“The weaker sex, to piety more prone, by rare examples, oft have been renown'd. When many murders were bewail'd by none, an isles whole men in blood by women drown'd.”
“Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always.”
“Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till with stronger and further reach Than they dreamed of, a billow comes bursting, how they turn and scamper and screech!”

Source : Alfred Austin, “A Woman’s Apology”
“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.”
“The main thing in a cup tie is to get through.”

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