"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."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

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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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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country's well-being."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself."

Herodotus, Greek Historian

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"Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in."

Azar Nafisi, Iranian Writer

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"Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story."

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

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

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"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."

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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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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country's well-being."

"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."

"It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself."

"Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in."

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"Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story."

"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."

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

"Puns are a form of humor with words."

"I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels."

"For me, words are just words, nothing else."

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

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

"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."

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