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“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”
―“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”
―“These, to be sure, were farfetched hopes, hopes born of despair, but hope is, after all, mostly for the desperate.”
― Before Night Falls“Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them.”
―“Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She had a light way of sweeping, as if removing the dirt were not as important as moving the broom over the ground. Her way of sweeping was symbolic; so airy, so fragile, with a broom she tried to sweep away all the horrors, all the loneliness, all the misery that had accompanied her all her life...”
― Before Night Falls“The difference between the communist and capitalist systems is that, although both give you a kick in the ass, in the communist system you have to applaud, while in the capitalist system you can scream. And I came here to scream.”
― Before Night Falls“Like a lightning bug... Like a lightning bug?... Yes, just like a night lightning bug; because there are day lightning bugs too - even if nobody has ever seen one, I know there are some, and I know the day lightning bugs are the cockroaches that since they can't light up, people kill them.”
― Singing from the Well“All this had already given us an inkling of what the new regime was about. There was still some hope, however. There is always some hope, especially for cowards. I was one of them, one of those cowardly or hopeful young men who still thought the government had something to offer.”
― Before Night Falls“Being a fugitive living in the woods at the time, I had to write before it got dark. Now darkness was approaching again, only more insidiously.”
―“All the literature of this century is somewhat burdened by the theme of uprootedness.”
― Before Night Falls“My sexual activity was all with animals. First there were the hens, then the goats and the sows, and after I had grown up some more, the mares.”
― Before Night Falls“Cuba will be free. I already am.”
― Before Night Falls“The typical Cuban machismo has attained alarming proportions in Miami. I did not want to stay too long in that place, which was like a caricature of Cuba, the worst of Cuba: the eternal gossip, the chicanery, the envy.”
― Before Night Falls“The exile is a person who, having lost a loved one, keeps searching for the face he loves in every new face and, forever deceiving himself, thinks he has found it.”“In Miami the obsession with making things work and being practical, with making lots of money, sometimes out of the fear of starving, has replaced a sense of life and, above all, of pleasure, adventure, and irreverence.”
― Before Night Falls
― Before Night Falls
Thursday, June 16, 2022
Reinaldo Arenas: 1943-1990: Cuban Writer Imprisoned For His Books
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