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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
Diplomat
Journalist
Lawyer
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Panamá
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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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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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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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I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.
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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’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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Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
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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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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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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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In literature, you know only what you imagine
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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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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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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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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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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