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Along American turnpikes he had failed to peddle vacuum cleaners, saucepans, patent medicines, candy, cufflinks, hairpieces. (I didn’t know all this at the time, but would learn it soon, gracefully worded, in his obituary.)
“Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“Freedom is often the first casualty of war.”
― The General in His Labyrinth
― The General in His Labyrinth
“and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
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“By virtue of marrying a man she does not love for money. That's the lowest kind of whore.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
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