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Small: Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to ser
"Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life"
Jose Marti, Activist
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Small: In truth, men speak too much of danger
"In truth, men speak too much of danger"
Jose Marti, Activist
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Small: Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without
"Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all"
Jose Marti, Activist
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Small: Charm is a product of the unexpected
"Charm is a product of the unexpected"
Jose Marti, Activist
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Small: This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career
"This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career"
Al Jourgensen, Musician
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Small: Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends
"Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends"
Al Jourgensen, Musician
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Small: Art is commenting on whats going on around you in your life
"Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life"
Al Jourgensen, Musician
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Small: Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I
"Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded"
Al Jourgensen, Musician
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Small: This administration affects the everyday life of the common person
"This administration affects the everyday life of the common person"
Al Jourgensen, Musician
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Small: Its typical of record companies. They sign you because youre unique, and then they want to put you in a mold s
"It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records"
Al Jourgensen, Musician
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Small: Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting
"Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs"
Al Jourgensen, Musician
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Small: When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page tha
"When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader
"When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay bet
"What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic
"I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book
"I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write prima
"I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: I think all writing is done through memory
"I think all writing is done through memory"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank p
"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"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread
"I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: I think that Ive tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fa
"I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot
"I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by ni
"I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for mysel
"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"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing some
"I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana
"So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with
"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"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels for instance, Cervant
"I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on callin
"I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the
"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty
"I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course
"I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I li
"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"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish
"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: I am a writer of fragments
"I am a writer of fragments"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page,
"You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are
"Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips
"I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels
"I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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Small: I dont have any style
"I don't have any style"
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist
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