People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it’s very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing “Love in the Time of Cholera.”

Source:The Best Years of His Life: An Interview with Gabriel García Márquez by Marlise Simons, The New York Times (April 10, 1988)
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