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Quotes by Cuban Authors
"I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me."
"Everyone should have a philosophy for living better."
"I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels."
"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."
"When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba."
"My style is a very universal sound, which is very close to where I grew up."
"I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena."
"I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game."
"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."
"This administration affects the everyday life of the common person."
"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 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 do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost."
"No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!"
"I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it."
"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."
"Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all."
"There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio."
"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."
"So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me."
"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."
"For me, words are just words, nothing else."
"Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread."
"It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense."
"When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader."
"Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends."
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