My mother had been educated at a convent, and she ...

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

I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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.

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I am a writer of fragments.

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante

My mother had been educated ...

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