Granted, I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other.


“Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude

“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
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“There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.”
― A Moon for the Misbegotten
― A Moon for the Misbegotten
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