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Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

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

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"There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal."

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"Our greatest duty to our children is to love them first. Secondly, it is to teach them. Not to frighten, force, or intimidate our children into submission, but to effectively teach them so that they have the knowledge and tools to govern themselves."

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"When you discipline a child you prepare them for a responsible and accountable adulthood."

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"I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves."

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"A parents wishes for their children shouldn't be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world."

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"Motherhood isn't just about making babies, it's about making lives and molding destinies."

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"I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't."

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"Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google backhoes and skidders. And you don't need a penis to go buy a baseball glove."

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"When my son Nick was five years old, he was sitting at the kitchen bar while I prepared dinner. In typical busy mother fashion, I was multitasking-cooking, cleaning, running the laundry, answering the phone, and attempting to listen to what he had to say."

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"If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away."

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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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"I think all writing is done through memory."
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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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"I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity."
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"I am a writer of fragments."
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"Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me."
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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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"American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter."
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"I am against the notion of style in itself."
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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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