Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
Carlos Fuentes
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Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.
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- I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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- Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.