Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infantewas a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, screenwriter, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín...
NationalityCuban
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 April 1929
CountryCuba
Guillermo Cabrera Infante quotes about
good-love lovers cigar
A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.
cuban-cigars world leisure
Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.
humor form pun
Puns are a form of humor with words.
havana fatherland
So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana
translators publishers
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread
gentleman opiates rich
Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.