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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.

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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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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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The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
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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 am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
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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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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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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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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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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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