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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 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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No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India. – Hu Shih

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Experience

Ive been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience. – Maria Sharapova

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Experience

Experience is determined by yourself — not the circumstances of your life. – Gita Bellin

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Experience

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime. – Daniel Day-Lewis

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We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq. – Condoleezza Rice

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God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? Numbers 23:19 – Bible

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The Google algorithm was a significant development. Ive had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website. – Tim Berners-Lee

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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. – Harold Wilson

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