“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.”
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.