Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to tell it.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was a Colombian novelist and journalist whose masterpiece 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' established magical realism as a major literary mode and Latin American fiction as a world force. His Nobel Prize (1982) honored 'his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination.'
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