#la

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#even #fatherland #havana #i #i do

That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#characters #define #end #first #i

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#characters #difficult #even #his #more

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. ↗

— John James Ingalls

#democracy #equal #grave #last #men

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything. ↗

— Dean Inge

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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#being happy #cause #except #happiest #happiest people

Originality is undetected plagiarism. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#plagiarism #undetected

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#be happy #good #happy #here #make

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#claim #every #give #human #human being

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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