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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
Diplomat
Journalist
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Novelist
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Panamá
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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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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 have no literary fears.
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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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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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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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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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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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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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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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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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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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chaos: it has no plural.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
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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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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
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I need, therefore I imagine.
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