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The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.
Sandra Cisneros
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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.
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My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.
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You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about your piece of writing in the language you would use if you were wearing your pajamas and you were seated at a table with your very good friend. And you wouldn't have to get all dressed up or clean up the table.
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Heartbreak makes us stronger it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?
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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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Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.
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I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.
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I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.
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There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia.
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I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.
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Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure.
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