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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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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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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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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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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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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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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
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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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There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
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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’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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The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs the Peruvians descend from the Incas the Argentineans descend from the boats.
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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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Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
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Memory is satisfied desire.
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