6 Quotes & Sayings By Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Guillermo Cabrera Infante spent most of his youth living in the south of the country. He got his first break as a writer at age 23, when he was hired by the newspaper El Nacional to write a column. His first novel, La Virgen de los Pecados (The Woman of the Sins) was published in 1987; it became a bestseller and won several prestigious prizes. Three years later, it was translated into English and published as The Cross of Bernice by Ecco Press Read more

In 1994, he released A Brief History of Time as part of the Anchor Paperback Original Series. A year later, he made his directorial debut with Seven Mysteries of Mexico, an experimental documentary filmed entirely in English and Spanish. In 1997, he released Your Face Tomorrow as part of the Anchor Paperback Original Series.

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I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce? Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Puns are a form of humor with words. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog. Guillermo Cabrera Infante