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Carlos Fuentes Inspirational Quotes (46)

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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.
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In literature, you know only what you imagine
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I have no literary fears.
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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.
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Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.
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Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency
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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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I need, therefore I imagine.
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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
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I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.
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I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.
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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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