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Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread


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A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.

A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.



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

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



I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread



I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.



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.

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.



Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.

Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.



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



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



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

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



Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.





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You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.

You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.




He strode with the weight of robbed innocence and a stolen childhood, for a life time of pain and anger, of terror and death."- Frank Balenger

He strode with the weight of robbed innocence and a stolen childhood, for a life time of pain and anger, of terror and death."- Frank Balenger



I had a serious boyfriend in high school, but we would take breaks in between. You shouldn't always have a boyfriend!

I had a serious boyfriend in high school, but we would take breaks in between. You shouldn't always have a boyfriend!



Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.



I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist.

I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist.



I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.



I just trust God. I don't worry about what tomorrow may bring because I know who's bringing it.

I just trust God. I don't worry about what tomorrow may bring because I know who's bringing it.



It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.

It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.



No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.




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