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There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us.

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Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.

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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

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In literature, you know only what you imagine

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No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.

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For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.

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