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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.
Carlos Fuentes
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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
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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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