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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."
"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?"
"I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is."
"This administration affects the everyday life of the common person."
"It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do."
"Once you lose everything, what's the worst that's going to happen to you? You develop a self-assurance."
"For me, words are just words, nothing else."
"When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader."
"Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents."
"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ."
"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action."
"Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played."
"I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school."
"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."
"I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels."
"I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner."
"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."
"You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me."
"I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century."
"If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances."
"The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong."
"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'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena."
"My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support of the entire Cuban society, to carry my flag in whatever competition I was in, the Olympic Games, Pan-American Games."
"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."
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