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The writer has a fundamental responsibility to write well or to write the best he can, because if he doesn’t he’s not a writer. And when a writer writes, he’s always referring to a social and historical context…

— Reinaldo Arenas

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In exile one is nothing but a ghost ... I ceased to exist when I went into exile.

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