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The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

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Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.

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When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.

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Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.

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This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.

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My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.

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This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.

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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

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The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

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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.

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My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.

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I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.

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Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.

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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

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