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Quote by Fernando Perez

“Cubans joke and satirize everything that life gives them, and I think that's a positive characteristic.”

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Fernando Perez, born on April 23, 1983, is a renowned baseball player. Throughout his career, he has won the admiration of many fans with his exceptional skills and consistent performance. more

“I want the marginality to come into the center. This is the thing I was conscious of growing up, when I later lived in England. I saw all these war movies that came out shortly after the war, and they were all about the war being fought by Englishmen or Americans, there were no other "allies" in it - from India or Australia, etc.”

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“Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country. You want the politics of any complicated situation to be complicated in a book of fiction or nonfiction.”

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“When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story is sort of discovered as I write it.”

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“That's one of the great sadnesses of any life - knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.”

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“When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me.”

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“If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.”

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“I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.”

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