Sandra Cisneros

Everywhere I go, it's me and me. Half of me living my life, the other half watching me live it.

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I'm not saying I'm not bad. I'm not saying I'm special. But I'm not like the Allport Street girls, who stand in doorways and go with men into alleys.All I know is I didn't want it like that. Not against the bricks or hunkering in somebody's car. I wanted it come undone like gold thread, like a tent full of birds.

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We're going to right the world and live. I mean live our lives the way lives were meant to be lived. With the throat and wrists. With rage and desire, and joy and grief, and love till it hurts, maybe. But goddamn, girl. Live.

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Everywhere I go, it's me and me. Half of me living my life, the other half watching me live it.

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We're going to right the world and live. I mean live our lives the way lives were meant to be lived. With the throat and wrists. With rage and desire, and joy and grief, and love till it hurts, maybe. But goddamn, girl. Live.

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I'm not saying I'm not bad. I'm not saying I'm special. But I'm not like the Allport Street girls, who stand in doorways and go with men into alleys.All I know is I didn't want it like that. Not against the bricks or hunkering in somebody's car. I wanted it come undone like gold thread, like a tent full of birds.

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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 thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times.

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All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

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I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

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I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way to adulthood, and listening to all kinds of music that came to us either at the flea market or in our living rooms or on the 'Ed Sullivan' show - all these places we were influenced by.

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In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind.

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And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.

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Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

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The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn't it?

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My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

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I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.

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Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.

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For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.

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Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.

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Quotes by Sandra Cisneros