"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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Source : Reinaldo Arenas (2010). “Before Night Falls”, p.9, Profile Books

Reinaldo Arenas

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“So small as to be negligible. It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost...free.”
“Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.”
“Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.”

Source : "Robin Cook's chicken tikka masala speech". www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2001.
“I dont know what to bowl at him. I bowled an inswinger and he drove me through covers of the front foot. Then I bowled an outswinger and he again punched through covers of the backfoot. He is the toughest batsmen I've bowled to. He shold live long and score lots of runs, but not against Pakistan.”
“It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.”
“I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.”
“The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.”
“If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for example, that they like their veal or hot dogs too much to ever give them up, and yeah it's sad about the farms but that's just the way it is, reason hears in that the voice of gluttony. We can say that what makes a human being human is precisely the ability to understand that the suffering of an animal is more important than the taste of a treat.”

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