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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
Plural
Chaos

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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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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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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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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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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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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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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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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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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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I need, therefore I imagine.
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There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
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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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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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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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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
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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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Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.
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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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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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