“i am almost one hundred years old, and i have seen everything change, even the position of the stars in the universe, but i have not seen anything change yet in this country…”
“...here they make new constitutions, new laws, new wars every three months, but we are still in colonial times.”
-uncle leo xii, love in the time of cholera by gabriel garcia marquez
these sentiments resonate with us who too belong to the 'league' of third world countries. but i would like to take it as a cry for change than a cry of despair.
ReplyDeleteI have been reading a lot of quotes from that book. Seems I need to get hold of that.
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