Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ."

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Source: FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Mar 05, 2017

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Colombian novelist known for his magical realism, particularly in 'One Hundred Years of Solitude,' which explores themes of love and memory.

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