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

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GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is ...
GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a bl...
GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled wi...
GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instan...
GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.
GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana.
GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear und...
GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?
GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more t...
GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father durin...
GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE

It's an excellent marketing tool for us. Our research shows us that lots of our customers like to ga...
DOMINICK INFANTE

This is how we allocate all our vehicles and have done so for 20-some years. What's unusual is the d...
DOMINICK INFANTE

Smart dealers know this is not a short-term product, not a low volume vehicle where there will alway...
DOMINICK INFANTE

We're allocating to make it better for consumers and make it easier to understand for consumers. We ...
DOMINICK INFANTE

I thank those people that thought I had lost the agility to play shortstop, because they gave me mor...
ASDRUBAL CABRERA

You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep i...
ANGEL CABRERA

I could never match Daly for driving,
ANGEL CABRERA

I made a bogey on the first, but apart from that I played very good today. I am very confident and h...
ANGEL CABRERA

I played very well today - I made every putt, ... My ambition is to finish the year in the top 10. T...
ANGEL CABRERA

I played very well today I made every putt, ... My ambition is to finish the year in the top 10. To ...
ANGEL CABRERA

I played very well today ? I made every putt, ... My ambition is to finish the year in the top 10. T...
ANGEL CABRERA

I played very well today - I made every putt. My ambition is to finish the year in the top 10. To do...
ANGEL CABRERA

As a company with operations on three continents and a commitment to serving customers worldwide, we...
ANGEL CABRERA

This school is about understanding,
ANGEL CABRERA

He holed more putts than I did. I was always struggling when he birdied four holes in a row.
ANGEL CABRERA

Corporate social responsibility is not a fad. In fact, there are structural reasons why this is happ...
ANGEL CABRERA

I got Neil Walker now as my new second baseman. He's great. He looks comfortable there. He knows...
ASDRUBAL CABRERA

Hotness is uniqueness and just being yourself - that's hot.
RYAN CABRERA

Life is so fast. And I still remember when I came up to the big leagues and played as if it were yes...
ASDRUBAL CABRERA

It's the same game. It's baseball. National League, American League. It's baseball. I ju...
ASDRUBAL CABRERA

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different language...
SANTIAGO CABRERA

Bush going up with negative ads this early in the season only proves that desperate times call for d...
JANO CABRERA

We have the great fans in Detroit. We've got a great ballpark, great stadium.
MIGUEL CABRERA

I'm the kind of guy who, if I look inside and they throw me a fastball outside, and it's a s...
MIGUEL CABRERA

I took a Dive and On the Way down I Saw you and You Saved me from Myself and I won't Forget the Way ...
RYAN CABRERA

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.
RYAN CABRERA

Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.
RYAN CABRERA

Sometimes you think, 'Do I really want the whole world to know how I feel?' But that's the only way ...
RYAN CABRERA

I actually came up with stuff for myself while writing with them, ... And I'd think, 'Maybe I should...
RYAN CABRERA

We had a scheduling conflict develop with the management, something last minute came up.
RYAN CABRERA

I was very lucky because hanging out at a golf course was much better than being on the streets. Gol...
ANGEL CABRERA

The fans wanted a home run but I was concentrating on making contact. Anything to bring the run in I...
ALEX CABRERA

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there wer...
SANTIAGO CABRERA

Everything that happened last year stays in the past.
ASDRUBAL CABRERA

Sometimes I'm wrong, sometimes not. But I'm an instinctual player.
ASDRUBAL CABRERA

[Recent Iowa polls show that Gore leads Bradley by a decisive 20-point margin. But in the last days ...
JANO CABRERA

Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can't lose sight of the li...
RYAN CABRERA

I don't want to just be the best player. I want to be a great person, too.
MIGUEL CABRERA

The fans asked us for a championship. Here it is.
ALEX CABRERA

We'll see what the Dominican Republic can do.
DANIEL CABRERA

Oh yeah, just muscles, ... It hurt, but I'm okay.
DANIEL CABRERA

A moose head is something to be proud of -- something to mount and show off.
DIANA CABRERA

I want to stay here with Leo, but it's my country and it's the first time I have the chance to go do...
DANIEL CABRERA

I'm really happy I hit it. I think we are made to be champions.
ALEX CABRERA

When I'm on the road traveling, the things I miss most are my two children and barbecuing with f...
ANGEL CABRERA

You may have to backpack, take a boat someplace, a plane.
SYLVIA CABRERA

When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How c...
MIGUEL CABRERA

I don't spend the whole off-season in Venezuela. I spend a couple of weeks in Cleveland, go to F...
ASDRUBAL CABRERA

I try to do my best every game to help the pitchers and help my team win. That's it.
ASDRUBAL CABRERA

There is still a lot of remodeling to do. We are just taking it a little at a time.
DIANA CABRERA

He's mending fences. That's the impression that he's looking to create.
JANO CABRERA

In golf, advice is not a big thing. If you don't have the ability, you won't get anywhere no...
ANGEL CABRERA

I'm going to do whatever it takes to be able to affect people the same way I've been affected by the...
RYAN CABRERA

I just try to find ways to help my team win.
MIGUEL CABRERA

I'm going to do my best to help the team play hard and help the team win... I'm just coming ...
ASDRUBAL CABRERA

If I didn't know you I would say I don't know you.
JAIME CABRERA

From the first moment I heard that there would be a Classic I started preparing for this. I've never...
DANIEL CABRERA

Everybody knows Leo likes to throw outside, and that's what I was trying to throw, the fastball outs...
DANIEL CABRERA

Pitching in this series is not easy, because every team is good and can hit. I was feeling really go...
DANIEL CABRERA

Anything that happens in the dugout, that's where it stays.
DANIEL CABRERA

I'll enjoy the win, enjoy the good times,
DANIEL CABRERA

I just want to enjoy the win. I faced Toronto like eight times and [didn't] win. I threw my fastball...
DANIEL CABRERA

I think I'll be ready for that, ... I don't feel any more pain.
DANIEL CABRERA

You have more time to make the play at second base than shortstop. That's why the game's mor...
ASDRUBAL CABRERA

It's hard for a shortstop to play with a guy you don't know in the middle of the season. If ...
ASDRUBAL CABRERA

I keep working hard to show people they're wrong.
ASDRUBAL CABRERA

We aren't opposed to interconnection, but it should be under equal conditions. We are governed by sp...
FERNANDO CABRERA

I was the one who made the mistake. He hit a fastball. It wasn't a good pitch.
FERNANDO CABRERA

Wins is what matter now. We have two more games. We still have a shot.
FERNANDO CABRERA

I do my best. I just [made] one mistake in that situation. We lost the game.
FERNANDO CABRERA

I feel bad. I was the one who made that mistake.
FERNANDO CABRERA

Given that Nader is running on the Pat Buchanan Reform Party ticket and is openly accepting both fin...
JANO CABRERA

What we can't make up in resources we make up in people power.
JANO CABRERA

We're strong. But we're trying to keep pace.
JANO CABRERA

Even though we're at war abroad, we have to remember that democracy continues here at home. That mea...
JANO CABRERA

This early in the season,
JANO CABRERA

continue to speak out against the president's Medicare policies.
JANO CABRERA

We think this is unfair. The rules of the debate were changed and two candidates were allowed to par...
JANO CABRERA

We'll do whatever they want.
JAMES CABRERA

They want to have adventure flights here using jet fighters, MIG. If it's added activity, we welcome...
LEE CABRERA

The rates we are proposing are of course higher than those currently given to employees.
LEE CABRERA

It's something new. We have to look at the regulations. We have to clear with FAA because there are ...
LEE CABRERA

I have heard from a number of people that this was the best gala ever. A lot of first-time visitors ...
JENNIFER CABRERA

All of the performances were great. The Broadway revue is always a big hit. People were mesmerized.
JENNIFER CABRERA

Students receiving scholarships are there performing, so you are seeing what you are supporting.
JENNIFER CABRERA

I saw Bartolo Colon's trainer the other day and he said, 'I haven't seen you in three weeks, what no...
ORLANDO CABRERA

After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, H...
GUILLERMO MORDILLO

I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter ...
GUILLERMO DIAZ

There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence ...
GUILLERMO GONZáLEZ

I'm a loner. I like to be alone. I'm socially awkward.
GUILLERMO DIAZ

I guess it was a misunderstanding. They never called me and said anything.
GUILLERMO QUIROZ

People should continue to be able to exercise their rights.
GUILLERMO LUZ

It's too early to make a call. There are still too many votes out there that have not been tabulated...
GUILLERMO LUZ

They're interested in the same things I'm interested in - no one else is. What I'm doing, frankly, i...
GUILLERMO GONZALEZ

They are a great team. They made some shots and we couldn't sustain it till the end. ... We had our ...
GUILLERMO DIAZ

It was fast - it happened in a matter of hours. But it probably was a gradual degradation of your st...
GUILLERMO RAMIREZ

Twelve months ago I could not have imagined sitting here and and being in the top 30,
GUILLERMO CANAS

I don't think there's a conspiracy. It's more of a political decision than a decision against my cou...
GUILLERMO CANAS

I'm very confident in my game and I feel that I'm playing a lot better since the first game,
GUILLERMO CANAS

The only negligence I admit to is that of not having checked what I was taking,
GUILLERMO CANAS

From the viewpoint of governance, everything has slipped back in a big way.
GUILLERMO LUZ

I knew it was going to be hard. My chest was kind of tight and my sinuses (too). But I don't want to...
GUILLERMO DIAZ

It was a misunderstanding. He (Massu) said, 'That's not a real injury, you're faking it,'. I said, '...
GUILLERMO CORIA

It's a disgrace. On one side, we are so advanced, and on the other side, yes, we are so advanced, bu...
GUILLERMO VICUNA

We now have two (instruments), an interest rate floor and the short. We're keeping the short hidden ...
GUILLERMO ORTIZ

I had done student films for the School Of Visual Arts and for NYU and all these schools in New York...
GUILLERMO DIAZ

I know [that against Louisville] I didn't have my best game but I have to look forward and keep play...
GUILLERMO DIAZ

We have no differences because we have nothing in common.
GUILLERMO VILAS

These guys (I played with), they knew they were crazy. With how the game was, you saw it (play out)....
GUILLERMO VILAS

Manu has brought Argentina to the world and the world to Argentina's doorstep, ... Who has done more...
GUILLERMO VILAS

It's sad for Argentina tennis and it's a very tough punishment,
GUILLERMO VILAS

But we're getting bad press because of the number of Argentines who have fallen foul.
GUILLERMO VILAS

They hide, and they wait until they can no longer support the pain.
GUILLERMO VICUNA

What's happening is a violation of human rights.
GUILLERMO VICUNA

We started out kind of rusty and started polishing them in practice.
GUILLERMO SARLO

We played a good game the first time. Today, we played the same way and we beat them.
GUILLERMO SARLO

I always like to keep them motivated. Each game is like a final for us.
GUILLERMO SARLO

After the first concert, it became the concert you wanted to do, if you were lucky enough. It was ju...
GUILLERMO RESTO

People were trying to outdo each other cheering and booing. Mark would just stand there, arms out, l...
GUILLERMO RESTO

You can't really describe what you're feeling when you score a goal like that. It was a beautiful mo...
GUILLERMO RAMIREZ

When you are piling things on top of each other, by nature you will have a pyramid shape. Your mass ...
GUILLERMO RAMIREZ

If you have a foundation that has given in to water pressure, not only are you allowing the structur...
GUILLERMO RAMIREZ

I caught Eddie Guardado today. If I can catch two or three guys a day to get familiar with what they...
GUILLERMO QUIROZ

No one has said anything to me, no. I'm hoping, though.
GUILLERMO QUIROZ

I didn't know. I was working out at home and the guys that I was working out with were the ones that...
GUILLERMO QUIROZ

Things happen for a reason. I think I've been able to get experience with each year. I know I have t...
GUILLERMO QUIROZ

I just set my mind to go out there and play hard every day. Whatever happens, I think it'll be a plu...
GUILLERMO QUIROZ

We expect vigorous growth for the first quarter of the year. If we continue having this type of indu...
GUILLERMO ORTIZ

We are going to have growth in the first quarter above 4.5 percent.
GUILLERMO ORTIZ

For the quarter, the first numbers we have are promising.
GUILLERMO ORTIZ

This dominant position implies difficulties for promoting more competition and, as a result, for low...
GUILLERMO ORTIZ

The markets have been expecting a policy shift for some time and the announcement has clarified seve...
GUILLERMO ORTIZ

The result appears to be a moderate deficit, less than 1 percent of gross domestic product.
GUILLERMO ORTIZ

Host-country authorities need to encourage subsidiaries to strengthen their stand-alone abilities.
GUILLERMO ORTIZ

It looks more likely that we will be in the upper end of the range.
GUILLERMO ORTIZ

We are keeping with ending the contract with Oxy, and to renegotiating oil contracts with the other ...
GUILLERMO MUNOZ

We are insisting on ending the contract with Oxy, and renegotiating oil contracts with the other mul...
GUILLERMO MUNOZ

That is our nonnegotiable position.
GUILLERMO MUNOZ

I didn't want to throw it in the strike zone, because it was my first time throwing it [in the outin...
GUILLERMO MOTA

That's my style. I learned that from [Dodgers closer] Eric Gagne.
GUILLERMO MOTA

Last year was a pretty good bullpen. (Pitching coach Carl) Willis said this bullpen is stronger, and...
GUILLERMO MOTA

Gagne taught me the changeup. I did not have confidence in it. Then he said, 'Throw that changeup.' ...
GUILLERMO MOTA

I've never had that before. It's good.
GUILLERMO MOTA

Everything felt nice and loose. No pain. It's good.
GUILLERMO MOTA

We were able to work the ball offensively a bit better than we had in the first half. They're very b...
GUILLERMO MENDOZA

At the end of the game I think we were a little fresher.
GUILLERMO MENDOZA

I am very proud of these guys. They worked hard all season and did not give up.
GUILLERMO MENDOZA

What is bad for business is this crisis. The root cause of this crisis happens to be the charges aga...
GUILLERMO LUZ

I think, Wednesday, you can expect people to come on out. We've just asked for an extended lunch hou...
GUILLERMO LUZ

I believe that God created the universe. What I don't know is whether that evidence can be tested ob...
GUILLERMO GONZALEZ

The fish find food and shelter in these flooded backwaters then they move back into the streams as w...
GUILLERMO GIANNICO

I just kept playing. I'm not going to back down because I wasn't having a good night.
GUILLERMO DIAZ

We started slow, particularly me. I just listened to the coaches, and went through it. I just kept f...
GUILLERMO DIAZ

This one's huge. Our confidence just keeps building and building. We beat two great teams that are r...
GUILLERMO DIAZ

It's tough; sometimes I feel heavy. My legs feel heavy.
GUILLERMO DIAZ

We've never had the experience of coming over here to a well-known team like North Carolina and beat...
GUILLERMO DIAZ

We fought hard. We just didn't execute at the end. All I wanted to do was win.
GUILLERMO DIAZ

It hurts, you know? At the end, we just didn't execute what we wanted to. They kept playing. They ke...
GUILLERMO DIAZ

Denis' dad and Roberto Clemente were first cousins. Baseball is still our more popular sport in Puer...
GUILLERMO DIAZ

I have always admired you You are so great. I hope to see you as soon as I am back to Argentina. We'...
GUILLERMO CORIA

There were no words exchanged, ... I had an injury with three of my toenails, he implied that I was ...
GUILLERMO CORIA

Take care of your own business and leave me alone. You're paranoid!
GUILLERMO CORIA

I lost a toenail on my foot and he questioned whether it was a real injury or not.
GUILLERMO CORIA

There were no words exchanged. I had an injury with three of my toenails, he implied that I was faki...
GUILLERMO CORIA

There were no words exchanged, ... I had an injury with three of my toenails, he implied that I was ...
GUILLERMO CORIA

That was the key point. There was everything in this match, a lot of turnarounds, but I knew how to ...
GUILLERMO CORIA

It took a lot of work with the conditioning coach, and I feel as strong as ever, and I'm going to co...
GUILLERMO CORIA

Moya is playing at his best and it will be very difficult to beat him. But I am really hungry to win...
GUILLERMO CORIA

I am finding my game and today it was another difficult first set. Volandri played very well and the...
GUILLERMO CORIA

We're monitoring the situation. We have an inspector dropping by every day.
GUILLERMO COLE

Naturally, with fewer people, we can't follow up as effectively as we'd like to.
GUILLERMO COLE

That's more than three years ago. We're not sure if the old vaccine is starting to wear off or he ma...
GUILLERMO COLE

It's definitely on the upswing, but it's still nowhere near where we were last year.
GUILLERMO COLE

He's much improved. We think he's out of the woods.
GUILLERMO COLE

My mistake was to have not kept the packaging from the medicines I took.
GUILLERMO CANAS

I hadn't seen him play in a long time, but I know he is playing great, so it will be a difficult mat...
GUILLERMO CANAS

The ATP have made a mistake in my case.
GUILLERMO CANAS

The past, the present, the future: migration is what matters.
GUILLERMO ALONSO

There are so many political and legal factors that impede Mexico's economy from functioning. It seem...
GUILLERMO ALONSO

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was c...
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backb...
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitud...
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a trav...
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing...
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

if you feel happy, Smile with all your heart. if you're down, smile with all your might.
PAUL IAN GUILLERMO

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

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

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