“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”
Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990) Cuban poet/novelist/playwright
“It's that a bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think.”
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