occurred quotes

No se le hab|a ocurrido pensar hasta entonces que la literatura fuera el mejor juguete que se hab|a inventado para burlarse de la gente. It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.

- Gabriel Garc|  a Ma r quez
  Cien an‹  os de soledad (translated as One HundredYears of Solitude,1970).