“… for an instant I thought about stopping the cab to say goodbye, but I preferred not to defy again a destiny as uncertain and persistent as mine.”

— Gabriel García Márquez, book Living to Tell the Tale

Living to Tell the Tale (2002)

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Colombian writer 1927–2014

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