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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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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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I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life. – E. M. Forster

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I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college. – Hubert Humphrey, speech, 1960

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None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you cant teach people that – they have to learn by experience. – Dorothy L. Sayers

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You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope youve provided them a foundation for whats right and what isnt. – Jack Nicklaus

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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What we remember from childhood we remember forever — permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. – Cynthia Ozick

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Love and friendship exclude each other. – Jean de la Bruyere

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