It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the …

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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 Art of Fiction No. 69. Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 322, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.
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