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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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Memory
Memories

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I have no literary fears.
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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
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The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
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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 had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
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In literature, you know only what you imagine
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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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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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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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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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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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