"I think all writing is done through memory"

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#Memories Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would (hello!) find something else to love.”
“As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.”
“We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it.”
“God is not there just for emergencies.”
“The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.”
“The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.”
“The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of course a tree would have taken a different view of the matter. We all tend to see the way others are alike and how we differ, and it's probably just as well we do, since that prevents a great deal of confusion. But perhaps we should remind ourselves from time to time that ours is a very partial view, and that the world is full of a great deal more variety than we ever manage to take in.”
“The teachers in America need to be applauded every day because they save the lives of kids!”

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