races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.

Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.

a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed.

Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.

We'll grow old waiting.

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.