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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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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. – C. S. Lewis

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Experience

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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Experience

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. – Henry Ford

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Experience

Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience. – Robert Lanza

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Experience

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Whatever happens in life is fine – just trust in that. – Orlando Bloom

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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. – Yogi Berra

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Youve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. – Jean Cocteau

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There are no creeds in mathematics. – Peter Drucker

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