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Guillermo Cabrera Infante

"My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth."

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"My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth."

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"Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything."

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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."

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"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."

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"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."

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"What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?"

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"Anyone who truly loves God travels securely."

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"God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."

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