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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes: Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
         

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.


Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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