Quote by Carlos Fuentes
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 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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Morning
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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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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly. – Anna Deavere Smith

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You cant dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell. – Terry Bradshaw

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Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what youre selling, then you dont know what youre selling, and its probably not going to be a good experience. – Marissa Mayer

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I have three goddaughters – Im not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children – but I try. – Diane Kruger

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