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Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul that hasn't been warmed by the fire of love is lifeless, like a useless ball of corn flour.
Laura Esquivel / Novelist
Fire
Love Is
Soul
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When Chipotle asked me to take part in the Cultivating Thought program both as an author and an essay contest judge, I was excited by the idea of sharing my story through this unique channel and helping young, inspiring writers do the same.
Laura Esquivel / Novelist
Inspiring
Cultivating
Excited
Helping
Program
Unique
Judge
Asked
Author
Channel
Contest
Writers
Essay
Sharing
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
Laura Esquivel / Novelist
Dancing
Earth
Inspiration
Sensuality
Simple
Talking
Touched
Life Love Me
Books
Connection
Immediate
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What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.
Laura Esquivel / Novelist
Chocolate
Enjoy Life
In The End
Sustains
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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.
Laura Esquivel / Novelist
Cinema
Deeper
Easily
Dig
Express
Images
Inner
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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.
Laura Esquivel / Novelist
Cold
Critical
Essays
Rational
Subjects
Above
Impersonal
Personally
Readers
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Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it.
Laura Esquivel / Novelist
Attempting
Determine
Islamic
Mexican
Jewish
Family Society Always
Element
Extent
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
Laura Esquivel / Novelist
Destruction
Mankind
Value Systems
Weapons
Extreme
Adjust
Carried
Earn
Merely
Modify
Societies
Profits
Systems
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Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities. If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory.
Laura Esquivel / Novelist
Air
Connected
Cooking
Earth
Fire
Frozen
Humans
Involving
Laboratory
Recipes
Spiritual
Strongest
Together
Water
Box
Become
Ceremonies
Chemical
Take
Factory
Gives
Put
Microwave
Stick
Value
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You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.
Laura Esquivel / Novelist
Wise
Boldness
Forgive Me
Heaven
Mechanism
Moon
Serpent
Sun
Women Are
Eagle
Forgive
Women Men Light
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I am always interested in that relationship between outer reality and inner desire, and I think it is important to pay attention to the inner voice because it is the only way to discover your mission in life and the only way to develop the strength to break with whatever familial or cultural norms are preventing you from fulfilling your destiny.
Laura Esquivel / Novelist
Relationship
Attention
Break
Desire
Fulfilling
Inner Voice
Pay
Pay Attention
Preventing
Reality
Voice
Between
Interested
Cultural
Develop
Discover
Whatever
Inner
Mission
Norms
Outer
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[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love.
Laura Esquivel / Novelist
Lying
Memories
Powerful
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Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.
Laura Esquivel / Novelist
Light
Oxygen
Sound
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You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes, revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and summoning us to regain the divine origins we had lost. The soul ever longs to return to the place from which it came, leaving the body lifeless.
Laura Esquivel / Novelist
Eye
Powerful
Tunnels
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Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits.
Laura Esquivel / Novelist
Groups
Order
Would Be
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