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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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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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Freedom
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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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Experience
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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed. – Allen Ginsberg

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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. – Denis Waitley

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Experience

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. – Eric Clapton

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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because its complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and hes able to keep processing that as well. – V. S. Naipaul

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In two days, its hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project. – Douglas Wilson

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Ignorance is never better than knowledge. – Enrico Fermi

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Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top. – Francis Beaumont

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Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sectors work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite. – Mortimer Zuckerman

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