Reinaldo Arenas Quotes

#1. These, to be sure, were farfetched hopes, hopes born of despair, but hope is, after all, mostly for the desperate.

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#2. The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.

George Will

#3. Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.

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#4. All this had already given us an inkling of what the new regime was about. There was still some hope, however. There is always some hope, especially for cowards. I was one of them, one of those cowardly or hopeful young men who still thought the government had something to offer.

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#5. To discover a city is in itself a unique event, but when we have the privilege of sharing it with friends most dear to us, it becomes a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

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#6. Being a fugitive living in the woods at the time, I had to write before it got dark. Now darkness was approaching again, only more insidiously.

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#7. Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them.

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#8. My sexual activity was all with animals. First there were the hens, then the goats and the sows, and after I had grown up some more, the mares.

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#9. Like a lightning bug ... Like a lightning bug? ... Yes, just like a night lightning bug; because there are day lightning bugs too - even if nobody has ever seen one, I know there are some, and I know the day lightning bugs are the cockroaches that since they can't light up, people kill them.

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#10. All the literature of this century is somewhat burdened by the theme of uprootedness.

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#11. The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.

Ludwig Von Mises

#12. Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

Caspar David Friedrich

#13. Remember that rabbit-proof fencing you told me about? You get that at a hardware store or is it special order?

Elle Lothlorien

#14. I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.

Olivier Martinez

#15. I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living

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#16. Cuba will be free. I already am.

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#17. Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as beauty.

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#18. The key is, how do you feel with the one asshole? They cannot be talked to. That's why they are assholes.

Steven Soderbergh

#19. It kept Mom on high alert and I worried sometimes that their marriage had become the sort Inspector Javert might have had with Jean Valjean.

Karen Joy Fowler