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Guillermo Cabrera Infante

"I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog."

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"I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog."

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Akshay Vasu

"I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to."

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Akshay Vasu

"I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament."

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Akshay Vasu

"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."

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Akshay Vasu

"The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort."

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Akshay Vasu

"Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian."

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Akshay Vasu

"The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you've got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You've got to stop. You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home."

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Akshay Vasu

"If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors."

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Akshay Vasu

"One person cooking at home cannot pay attention to too many things. If a woman makes three dishes, she will get nervous on the first, the second will suffer and the third will be a disaster."

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Akshay Vasu

"When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters."

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"When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself."

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship."

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror."

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread."

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"I am a writer of fragments."

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"I am against the notion of style in itself."

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

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio."

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me."

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other."

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