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  1. Interviewer: You describe seemingly fantastic events in such minute detail that it gives them their own reality. Is this something you have…
  2. I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of mercha…
  3. In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know wh…
  4. A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame. I don't really like to say this because …
  5. 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…
  6. I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.
  7. I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would…
  8. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him t…

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