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You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. Can't talk, I'm writing today.
Sandra Cisneros
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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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I usually meditate and I call my spirit allies - anyone in the spirit world that I've got connections with. Even in the spirit world you need connections!
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This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era.
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I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the funniest book I've ever written, it was the saddest period of my life.
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I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.
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The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.
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Being on a highway, all that speed and aggression, is very terrifying to me.
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I have to say my favorite stories are ghost stories. I don't like to see these made-up monster films or scary films with ghosts. It doesn't do anything to me. But a real ghost story that someone tells me, that I like.
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I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I said of the spirit world. Thank you for allowing me to speak about the spiritual, because I can't talk about my life or writing without mentioning that.
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The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. It's like being blind. You aren't less of a person, but you're missing out on wonderful things.
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I lose things. I write things and they disappear from my desk, my life. I move a lot. I wanted to gather them and put them under one roof, under one cover, so I could document my life in a series of snapshots.
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I think the erotic is very spiritual, and I never see that spiritual dimension when you look at collections of erotica. That's always missing for me.
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That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.
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My Virgen de Guadalupe is not the mother of God. She is God. She is a face for a god without a face, an indigena for a god without ethnicity, a female deity for a god who is genderless, but I also understand that for her to approach me, for me to finally open the door and accept her, she had to be a woman like me.
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I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.
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If you're going to write about the river, you've got to get in.
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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 do in English.
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I know there are a lot of women who are afraid of driving on highways.
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Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say, I am going to write a novel.
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I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate
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The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.
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