Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: cuban
  • Birth: April 22, 1929 - February 21, 2005

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MyselfMoneyWiseSaidWriteJust

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

Joe Wright

ChoicesFeelingKindNeedIntuition

The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.

John Hewson

FoolWaitingConflictRealityWill

I'm always super scared of feeling like a fake.

Mia Goth

FakeFeelingAlwaysScaredLike

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

Sojourner Truth

WomenGreatMenYouBadWill

Every Russian emperor from Peter the Great to Stalin and Putin knows a leader and his security agencies must never be parted. His safety depends on their slavish devotion.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

LeaderGreatSafetySecurityNever

In Indiana, the Affordable Care Act will raise the average cost of health insurance in the individual market by an unaffordable 72 percent.

Mike Pence

HealthCareInsuranceWillCostAct

I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life.

Michael Leunig

LifeLiveTechnologyGreatThink

I have been obsessed with seamed stockings my whole life, and I would collect vintage ones that were made in the '40s and '50s with the authentic styling of the keyhole, the welt, the reinforced toe and heels, French or Cuban heels, and hand-stitched seams.

Dita Von Teese

LifeVintageHeelsWholeBeenMade

I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

FatherHomeHeroMeBoyShy

I'm really not used to people paying attention to my writing.

Christopher Priest

PeopleWritingAttentionUsedReally

I'm a pretty good winner. I'm a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

Tom Brady

GoodWinLoserWinnerPrettyRub

'S.N.L.' is the comedy establishment. Of course you want to go through that, because you want that stamp of approval. But it has its own identity, and our voices didn't mesh for whatever reason - or they decided we didn't belong.

Noel Wells

IdentityComedyYouGoWantReason

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