Julia Alvarez Quotes

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• A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.
• As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I could see the…
• It doesn't make any sense. If the SIM are policemen, secret or not, shouldn't we trust them instead of being afraid of them?
• There is no end to what can be said about the world
• For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle, and…
• A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.
• It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back…
• Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.
• Independence didn't have to be exile.
• I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.
• The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.

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