"[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves"

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Source : Laura Esquivel (2010). “Like Water For Chocolate”, p.104, Random House

Laura Esquivel

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“I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic”
“The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body.”
“On Sherry: The destiny of a thousand generations is concentrated in each drop. If the cares of the world overwhelm you, only taste it, pilgrim, and you will swear that heaven is on earth.”
“Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.”
“The god we now behold with opened eyes, A herd of spotted panthers round him lies In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.”
“The spread of democracy is a wonderful thing-it is a necessary foundation for peace-and it can happen. But it cannot be advanced by force, and still less by the creation of a new empire, an idea that is as unworkable as it morally mistaken. Empire, the embodiment of force, violates equity on a global scale. No lover of freedom can give it support. It is especially contrary to the founding principles of the United States.”
“I'm saying goodbye to people's perception of me and who I am, I'm not saying goodbye to me, because this has always been me.”
“When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.”

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