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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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"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."

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"Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems."

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"Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments."

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"Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!'"

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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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"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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"I am a writer of fragments."
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"I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself."
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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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"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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"American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter."
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"Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread."
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"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."
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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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