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[...] 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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Laura Esquivel
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 30
Educator
Novelist
Politician
Screenwriter
Writer
Mexico City
Mexico
Laura Beatriz Esquivel Valdés
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Love
Matches
Strike
Lust
Boxes
Strikes
Inside

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The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.
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Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.
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Gertrudis got on her horse and rode away. She wasn't riding alone--she carried her childhood beside her, in the cream fritters she had enclosed in a jar in her saddlebag
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It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita
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There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.
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Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.
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Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths, she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love.
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The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can’t stop!
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I like vibrant colors.
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No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion.
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As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.
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Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.
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