Laura Esquivel Quotes

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I cook. I walk. I go to the movies. I meditate.

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I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal – like, big scandal.

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I like vibrant colors.

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I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote ‘Like Water for Chocolate,’ which is merely the reflection of who I am as a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter.

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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.

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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.

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I was pretty much a hippie. I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it’s curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change.

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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.

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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.

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Everyone‘s past is locked up in their recipes – the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.

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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.

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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.

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Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.

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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.

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I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.

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Food can change anything.

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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.

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We’re in a period of revolutionary change. I’m optimistic. One’s self changes, and then the world changes. It’s going to begin internally, not externally.

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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.

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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

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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.

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For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.

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The only way we’ll know where we’re going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.

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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.

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What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.

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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother’s kitchen, my grandmother’s smells. I thought, ‘What a wonderful way to tell a story.’

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We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn’t tamed.

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What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.

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I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.

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Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

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Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development.

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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.

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