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Quotes by Cuban Authors
"But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove."
"I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is."
"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?"
"Everyone should have a philosophy for living better."
"In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation."
"You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot."
"To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity."
"My style is a very universal sound, which is very close to where I grew up."
"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."
"I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face."
"I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels."
"It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense."
"Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist."
"We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son."
"There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio."
"This administration affects the everyday life of the common person."
"For me, words are just words, nothing else."
"I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game."
"No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!"
"As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored."
"Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion."
"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ."
"I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school."
"You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public."
"A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader."
"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."
"When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader."
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