Luis Rafael Sánchez (1936) Puerto Rican playwright and novelist
On the thematic constraints of Puerto Rican literature in “Luis Rafael Sánchez: Counterpoints" https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00096005/00024/14j (Sargasso, 1984)
“Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.”
Source: Generation of Vipers (1942), p. 44
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