"Then he knew that they had rounded the……" — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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337 Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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He who awaits much can expect little.
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It's much more important to write than to be written about.
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Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
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Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and…
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Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country...
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He governed as if he felt predestined to never die
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Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not…
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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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Necessity has the face of a dog.
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Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write…
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When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I…
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Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
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I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape,…
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I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket…
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask…
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Didn't know what I was doing but I put on a cape Now it's which world tour should I go…
— Nicki Minaj
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The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they…
— H. L. Mencken
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[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent,…
— Allan McLeod Cormack
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How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An…
— Thabo Mbeki
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We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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When your a kid,everybody runs around witha red cape-we all wanted to be SUPERMAN or BATMAN,
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Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just…
— Dave Attell
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And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.
— K. Sello Duiker
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If you wait through long, cold hours in the November woods with a bow in your hands hoping a buck…
— Donald Trump, Jr.
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