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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 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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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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If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But Ive also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it. – Alanis Morissette

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Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience. – Brian Tracy

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Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didnt want to do anything that could reflect it. – Walter Salles

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I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me. – Celine Dion

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