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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 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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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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When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience. – Ron Wyden

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There are people hell-bent on the idea that were a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. Its simply about life experience. – Amy Lee

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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. – Benjamin Disraeli

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I had great faith in Irish actors, that theyd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. Its been a learning experience for me too. – Christopher Meloni

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In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part. – Michael Bruce

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Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: That you are dreadfully like other people. – James Russell Lowell, “Democracy Address,” Birmingham, England, 6 October 1884

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Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act. – Alice Meynell

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