I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez Modern

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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'Living to Tell the Tale'

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2002

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Strange & Unusual

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