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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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Carlos Fuentes
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that. – Barbara Kingsolver

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Experience

Every moment is an experience. – Jake Roberts

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Experience

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching We are all one. – Neale Donald Walsch

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Experience

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. – George Bernard Shaw

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Experience

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Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how youre going to live your life. – Joel Osteen

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Attitude

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. – Helen Keller

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Nature

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best – that is inspiration. – Robert Bresson

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We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means. – Condoleezza Rice

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Intelligence