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From the time they turned one they were tossed from the balconies of the kitchens, first with life preserves so they would lose their fear of the water, and then without life preservers so they would lose their respect for death.

— Gabriel García Márquez Living to Tell the Tale (2002)

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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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