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"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."

Carlos Fuentes on History

More quotes about History

  • "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

    Confucius on History

  • "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

    Abraham Lincoln on History

  • "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

    Mahatma Gandhi on History

  • "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

    Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

  • "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

    Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Carlos Fuentes

  • "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."

  • "Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."

  • "I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family."

  • "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."

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

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