“Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable.” “On a day like today, my master William Faulkner said, I decline to accept the end of man. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.” -Excerpt from acceptance speech given by Gabriel García Márquez upon receiving his Nobel Prize in Literature on 8 December 1982.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 06:20:46 +0000
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