She asked God, without fear, if he really believed that people were made of iron in order to bear so many troubles and mortifications; and asking ove… - Gabriel García Márquez
" "She asked God, without fear, if he really believed that people were made of iron in order to bear so many troubles and mortifications; and asking over and over she was stirring up her own confusion and she felt irrepressible desires to let herself go and scamper about like a foreigner and allow herself at last an instant of rebellion, that instant yearned for so many times and so many times postponed, putting her resignation aside and shitting on everything once and for all and drawing out of her heart the infinite stacks of bad words that she had been forced to swallow over a century of conformity.
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About Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, journalist and activist. He was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Gabriel José García Márquez
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez
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Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez
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Gabriel Jose de la Concordia Garcia Marquez
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