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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
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Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
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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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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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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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In literature, you know only what you imagine
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Memory is satisfied desire.
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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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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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I have no literary fears.
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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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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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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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I need, therefore I imagine.
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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 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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chaos: it has no plural.
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The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
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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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