"My mother had been educated at a convent,……" — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth."
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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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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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