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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.

— 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)

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)

Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.

Living to Tell the Tale (2002)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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