Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quote

“The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.”

~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Nobel Prize Lecture, 8 December 1982

Ratings and Comments


Mike, Norwalk

it could be?

Ken, Allyn, WA

So, here's the same, old, tired cultural equivalence idea again. We are taking away someone else's freedom and isolating them if we don't allow them to interpret reality through their own beliefs: for instance beat their wives, rape the un-burka'd woman, cut the throats of non-believers, send suicide bombers to kill infidels. Some cultures are better than others. Some ideas, interpretations, or thought patterns, are indeed evil.

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