M A Buendia Quotes

#1. I believe we are all geniuses-each in our own unique way.

Shakti Gawain

#2. Ecstasy? Like the drug?" Michelle asked. "Wow. Trippy. They were into that back then?" "No. Not like the drug. Like fun. She's a symbol of never-ending fun.

Joe Hill

#3. Some people choose to be wrong just to say they were always right...

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#4. The INS, by their actions, is telling would-be illegal aliens that if you don't get caught entering the U.S., we'll look the other way so you can stay.

Lamar S. Smith

#5. Be as thou wast wont to be.
See as thou wast wont to see.

William Shakespeare

#6. He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear.

~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia
After the second banana slaughter

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#7. Jose Arcadio Buendia took his wife's words literally. He looked out the window and saw the barefoot children in the sunny garden and he had the impression that only at that instant had they begun to exist, conceived by Ursula's spell.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#8. Look at the mess we've got ourselves into,' Colonel Aureliano Buendia said at that time, 'just because we invited a gringo to eat some bananas.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#9. I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.

Frederick Douglass

#10. Colonel Aureliano Buendia could understand only that the secret of good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude- 205

Gabriel Garcia Marquez