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Carlos Fuentes Inspirational Quotes (46)

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I’ve been thrashed by the critics. I love having critics for breakfast. I’ve been having them for 30 years in Mexico - just eating them like chicken and then throwing the bones away. They have not survived, I have!
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Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.
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Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it, in order to try to understand it.
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I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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chaos: it has no plural.
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The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.
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The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs the Peruvians descend from the Incas the Argentineans descend from the boats.
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Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.
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There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
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Memory is satisfied desire.
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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
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The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
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Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
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Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
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