"One press account said I was an overnight……" — Sandra Cisneros
"One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent."
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57 Quotes by Sandra Cisneros
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I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for…
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I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took…
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Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
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I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are…
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I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I…
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Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.
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'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino'…
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I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer…
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There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books…
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My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms,…
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And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine…
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The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is…
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but…
— Isaac Asimov
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
— Teresa of Avila
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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited…
— Douglas Adams
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
— Douglas Adams
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
— Max Beerbohm
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we…
— Saul Bellow
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the…
— Benazir Bhutto
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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