"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."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Home, Being, Man, Years

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

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

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

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

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"I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself."

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"I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book."

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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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