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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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"Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home."

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"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."

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"Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?"

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"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

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"Your body and spirit, subconscious and conscious-every portion of you recognizes home. That is why on the moment of arrival, your entire being relaxes into a contented puddle of joy."

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"A home without books is a body without soul."

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"One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family)."

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"Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unfortunately, it's also the place where, once you're in there, they don't ever want to let you out."

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"The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one."

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"I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine."

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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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"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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"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 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 am a writer of fragments."
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