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It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Age: 75 †
Born: 1929
Born: April 22
Died: 2005
Died: February 21
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I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
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Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
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I don't have any style.
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If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?
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I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips
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American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter
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That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.
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