"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, Cuban Novelist

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"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."

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"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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"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."

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"I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels."

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"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."

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"For me, words are just words, nothing else."

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"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."

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"American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter."

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"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."

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"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."

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"I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself."

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Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image."

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"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will."

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"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."

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"I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit."

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"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

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"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included."

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"He is now rising from affluence to poverty."

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"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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