"Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the……" — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich."
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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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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
— Jane Austen
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
— Walter Bagehot
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a…
— Otto von Bismarck
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The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and…
— Malin Akerman
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In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my…
— Carol Burnett
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business,…
— Lord Byron
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
— Nick Cave
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A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
— Fred Allen
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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a…
— Raymond Chandler
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A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
— Charlie Chaplin
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