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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

— Gabriel García Márquez The Paris Review interview (1981)

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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.

The Paris Review interview (1981)

But I believe without any doubt at all that our greatest good fortune was that even in the most extreme difficulties we might lose our patience but never our sense of humor.

Living to Tell the Tale (2002)

Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away bad memories and magnified the good ones.

Living to Tell the Tale (2002)

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