Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes

• Creo que los escritores se precipitan donde todo el mundo tiene miedo de pisar.

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  Thinking, Bedtime, Frightened

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• Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.

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  Leisure, Cuban Cigars, World

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• If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

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  Sleep, Monsters, Doe

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• A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.

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  Good Love, Lovers, Cigar

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• Creo que los escritores, salvo que se consideren terriblemente exquisitos, son en el fondo gente que vive de noche, un poco al margen de la sociedad, moviéndose entre la delincuencia y el conformismo

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  Creer, Mover, Corazón

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• What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other

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  Powerful, Believe, Reading

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• When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

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  Writing, Needs, Literature

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• Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

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  Writing, Play, Serious

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• When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

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  Mean, Writing, Literature

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• I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

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  Writing, Thinking, Cities

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• Leí la Odisea porque era la historia de un hombre que volvía a casa después de estar ausente más de veinte años y sólo era reconocido por su perro.

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  Friendship, Dog, Home

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• I am a writer of fragments.

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  Fragmentos

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• Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

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  Gentleman, Opiates, Rich

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• Salí por primera vez contra Castro en junio de 1968, quince meses después de que se publicara mi libro, y no puedes imaginarte lo rápido que se creó un vacío a mi alrededor

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  Book, June, Firsts

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• No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

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  Writing, Jigsaw Puzzles, Literature

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• I think all writing is done through memory

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  Recuerdos, escribir, pensar

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• I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England

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  Country, Thinking, Literature

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• Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread

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  Literature, Translators, Publishers

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• I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

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  Hispano

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• I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips

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  Boys, Alaska, Avid

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• The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

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  Character, Peculiar, Literature

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• I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

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  Writing, Catholic, Literature

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• It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

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  Mean, Writing, Literature

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• That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.

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  Writing, Character, Lasts

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• Puns are a form of humor with words.

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  Humor, Form, Pun

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