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I dont think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad boo

I dont think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. – Carlos Fuentes

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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. – Carlos Fuentes

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Experience
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You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity… We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican. – Carlos Fuentes

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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. – T. S. Eliot

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I dont think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because its our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us. – Hilary Swank

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Everybodys got one killer story. It doesnt take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience. – Kevin Smith

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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce

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