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Gabriel García Márquez 218
Colombian writer 1927–2014Related quotes
“Hate gave birth to the slang; Slang (‘argot’) exists not anymore.”
( « L'argot est né de la haine, il n'existe plus» Arts, 6. February 1957. in À l’agité du bocal et autres textes, (op. cit.) p. 55.
“It was the Rainbow gave thee birth,
And left thee all her lovely hues.”
The Kingfisher
La Système de la nature; quoted in The Law of Reason, published by J. Thompson, p. 40.
Variant: Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
“Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they'd be married, too.”
A Little Book in C major http://books.google.com/books?id=EAJbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Bachelors+know+more+about+women+than+married+men+If+they+didn't+they'd+be+married+too%22&pg=PA61#v=onepage (1916) ; later published in A Mencken Crestomathy (1949)
1910s
“We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.”
“O like Venus attended by a thousand tender Cupids, setting foot upon the sea that gave her birth.”
Aut patrio qualis ponit vestigia ponto
Mille Venus teneris cincta Cupidinibus.
II, ii, 9-10.
Elegies
" Harvey Sweinstein And Hollywood's Hos, https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2017/10/20/harvey-weinstein-and-hollywoods-hos-n2397822" Townhall.com, October 20, 2017.
2010s, 2017