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Gabriel Garcia Marquez pawned appliances to mail his novel
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True suffering for your art means literally freezing. Marquez and his wife were so broke when he finished 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' that they couldn't afford the postage to send the full manuscript to his publisher in Argentina. They pawned their space heater and a hairdryer just to get the second half of the book in the mail.
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