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" I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois. "

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" I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists. "

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" Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature. "

" I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon. "

" I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion. "

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" Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy. "

" A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno. "

" I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah! "

" The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts. "

" One writes fables in periods of oppression. "

" In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. "

" I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems. "

" I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature. "

" Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. "

" I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it. "

" Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness. "

" I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality. "

" I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works. "

" Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me. "

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" The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. "

" I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year. "

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" Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world. "

" Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing. "