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A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.
A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.
Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern
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- Gabriel García Márquez
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- Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1927 to 2014; Wikidata Q5878, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5878 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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