The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. … - Gustavo Perez Firmat

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. . . Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.

Gustavo Perez Firmat

The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else

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My writing, such as it is, grows out of my sense of discolation, I mean, dislocation. Having lost my place, I write to find my place, or to find once again that I have lost my place.

Discolation, Lost, Mean, Place, Write, Writing

I was born in Cuba but was made in the USA.

Born, Cuba, Usa

My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.

Absence, Father, Left, Place, Rely

Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have to say, but I always seem to find a new way of repeating myself.

Book, Finishing, Said, Say, Thinking, Way

I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens.

Fantasy, Fiction, Novels, Realistic, Science