"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 not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination."
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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 day's writing."
-Carlos Fuentes
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"You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't 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."
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"I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family."
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"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."
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"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
-Albert Einstein
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"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
-Dr. Seuss
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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
-Jorge Luis Borges
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"A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
-Jane Austen
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
-Sylvia Plath
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