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Laura Esquivel [1950-0] Mexican

Rank: 102
Author, Novelist

Laura Esquivel is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter and a politician who serves in the Chamber of Deputies for the Morena Party.

Home, Change, Food, Society, Teacher, Technology, Truth

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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.	Truth	101
I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.		102
I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.	Change, Food	103
I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room.	Home	104
As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.	Home, Society	105
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.	Teacher	106
There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.	Technology	107
For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.		108
In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings.		109
Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.		110

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