"I left my country because I was forced……" — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England"
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53 Quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infante has 53 quotes on this site.
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Puns are a form of humor with words.
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If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?
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I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.
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That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters…
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When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader
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I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book
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What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the…
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I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer…
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I think all writing is done through memory
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I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread
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I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little…
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I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot…
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no…
— Lance Armstrong
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
— Chinua Achebe
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,…
— David Attenborough
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Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
— Chinua Achebe
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Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot…
— Margaret Atwood
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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