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Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure.
Sandra Cisneros
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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. Can't talk, I'm writing today.
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The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.
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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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