Alma Guillermoprieto Quotes

I think that the temptation to feel that your entire life has been wasted must be very great for a lot of Cubans.

- Alma Guillermoprieto

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I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news. - Alma Guillermoprieto

I read a lot. And both of my parents, I think, would have wanted to be writers. It's funny how one ends up doing the things that-that parents-perhaps, the dreams that parents couldn't fulfill. I know that my mother would have been beyond herself to have had a story published in The New Yorker. - Alma Guillermoprieto