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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
Carlos Fuentes
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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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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 need, therefore I imagine.
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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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Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
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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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I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
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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 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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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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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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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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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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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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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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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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Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
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Memory is satisfied desire.
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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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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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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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