Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quote
You know better than I, he said, that all courts-martial are farces and that you're really paying for the crimes ofother people, because this time we're going to win the war at any price. Wouldn't you have done the same in my place?General Moncada got up to clean his thick horn-rimmed glasses on his shirttail. Probably, he said. But whatworries me is not your shooting me, because after all, for people like us it's a natural death. He laid his glasses onthe bed and took off his watch and chain. What worries me, he went on is that out of so much and thinking about them so much, you've ended up as bad as they are. And no ideal in life is worth that much baseness. He took off his wedding ring and the medal of the Virgin of Help and put them alongside his glasses and watch.
You know better than I, he said, that all courts-martial are farces and that you're really paying for the crimes ofother people, because this time we're going to win the war at any price. Wouldn't you have done the same in my place?General Moncada got up to clean his thick horn-rimmed glasses on his shirttail. Probably, he said. But whatworries me is not your shooting me, because after all, for people like us it's a natural death. He laid his glasses onthe bed and took off his watch and chain. What worries me, he went on is that out of so much and thinking about them so much, you've ended up as bad as they are. And no ideal in life is worth that much baseness. He took off his wedding ring and the medal of the Virgin of Help and put them alongside his glasses and watch.