Hablando siempre y siempre contando chismes y haciendo chistes y siempre y tambie¤  n filosofando o estetizando o moralizando, siempre: la cuestio¤  n era hacer ver como que no trabaja¤  bamos porque en La Habana, Cuba, esa es la  u¤ nica manera de ser gente bien. Talking all the time and telling jokes or gossiping all the time and always and also philosophizing or aestheticizingor moralizing, but always: thething wasto make it look like we didn't have to work because in Havana,Cuba, this is the only way to be high society. . .

-Cabrera Infante, Guillermo
  Tres tristes tigres ( Three Trapped Tigers,1971),'Bachata'.

I was a man lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis long before becoming a fully- fledged communist. Discovering Marxism was like finding a map in a forest.

-Castro (Ruz), Fidel
Speech, Chile,18 Nov.

Seg u¤ n un yanqui que debe ser todo un derrochador, es Cuba donde mejor se come siempre y se bebe. According to a gringo who must be a true spendthrift, Cuba is always the best place to eat and to drink.

-Guille¤  n, Nicola¤  s
  Sa¤  tira pol|¤  tica,'Depende' ('It Depends').