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

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Identity, London

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

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"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"

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"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

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"As I think of myself, so I shall be."

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"Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were."

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"No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself."

Journalism

"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."

Beginning

"American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter."

Literature

"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."

Nation

"I am against the notion of style in itself."

Style

"I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself."

Writing

"Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer."

Choice

"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."

Society

"I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer."

Identity

"You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that."

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