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Guillermo Cabrera Infante

"A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader."

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Amber Hurdle

"I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent."

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Amber Hurdle

"Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM."

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Amber Hurdle

"Lack of money is the root of all evil."

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Amber Hurdle

"We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers."

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Amber Hurdle

"Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites."

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Amber Hurdle

"If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already."

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Amber Hurdle

"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s."

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Amber Hurdle

"I have been very lucky to find something I am good at and can make money at... Playing with Bruce was the embodiment of everything that a little kid could dream about."

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Amber Hurdle

"Earned money brings you security, borrowed money gets you slavery."

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Amber Hurdle

"If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it."

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"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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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor."

Parenting

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader."

Money

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters."

Writing

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me."

Creativity

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title."

Writing

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course."

Identity

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"For me, words are just words, nothing else."

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"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."

Censorship

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"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."

Writing

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