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One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel García Márquez

bookshelves: want-to-read-soon, strange-magic, magical-realism, classics, currently-reading, 2026-sylly-drafting, xyz

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May 21, 2026 10:17PM

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: adventuring, death, time

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“Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

tags: film, movies, nightmare, pleasure

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“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: convoluted-speech, expression, humor, intelligibility, sarcasm

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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity

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“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friendship

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