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Guillermo Cabrera Infante

"I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me."

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"I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me."

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"The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attractive tales and tell things, people like to hear. But the post-factual grassland often appears to be parched and barren. ['The grass was greener over there']"

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"Politics, it's all corrupt!"

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"Corporate governments are as corrupt as their law enforcement departments."

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"Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation"."

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"Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room."

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"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains."

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"A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism."

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"If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!"

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"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

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"Being political doesn't only or principally mean caring what party wins the next election, to be political is to care about the happiness of strangers."

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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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"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."
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"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."
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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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"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."
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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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