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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than o

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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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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I am a morning writer I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next days writing. – Carlos Fuentes

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I dont want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something thats under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile. – Danny Boyle

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Another way of judging the value of a prophets religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either. – Helen Keller

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In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, its at the extreme end of their experience. – Dean Koontz

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