Literature Quotes

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"Every story is a form of resistance against oblivion."
Elena Garro
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"A woman who writes is a woman who refuses to be forgotten."
Elena Garro
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"We inherit languages, but we must forge our own words."
Elena Garro
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"Every poem we read is a journey into ourselves."
Octavio Paz
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"Poetry is the secret history of mankind."
Octavio Paz
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"Literature preserves the experience of being human."
Octavio Paz
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"The novel is born from the matrix of gossip."
Carlos Fuentes
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"The writer is a mirror held up to society."
Carlos Fuentes
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"The reader creates the meaning of the text."
Carlos Fuentes
"The pen becomes a sword when wielded by those with nothing to lose."
Gioconda Belli
"Our stories are our weapons and our salvation."
Gioconda Belli
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"I write because I have nothing else to do, and because writing is a way of not dying."
Rosario Castellanos
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"In writing, I find the voices that society silences."
Rosario Castellanos
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"Every word carries the weight of history within it."
Rosario Castellanos
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"In writing about women's experience, I write about the human condition."
Rosario Castellanos
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"The written word can capture what the heart struggles to express."
Mariano Azuela
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"The printed word preserves what would otherwise be lost to time."
Mariano Azuela
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"A writer must learn to see the extraordinary in the ordinary."
Rubén Darío
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"Words are the keys that unlock the chambers of the heart."
Rubén Darío
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"The pages of a book are doorways to infinite worlds."
Rubén Darío
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"Women are not born; they are made by the stories we tell about them."
Elena Garro
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"We are shaped by the stories we inherit and the ones we create."
Elena Garro
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"We become who we are through the stories others tell about us."
Elena Garro
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"Every story contains the seeds of transformation."
Elena Garro
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"We build our lives from the rubble of others' stories."
Elena Garro
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"To write is to remember what society wants us to forget."
Nellie Campobello
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"I chose to write rather than forget, to remember rather than move on."
Nellie Campobello
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"I chose literature because it could outlive bullets and betrayals."
Nellie Campobello
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"Writing allows the dead to speak through the living."
Nellie Campobello
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"Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone."
Octavio Paz