Havana quotes

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'.

Our Man in Havana.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
   Title of novel.

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