"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."
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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 Garcia Marquez
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