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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
Diplomat
Journalist
Lawyer
Novelist
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Panamá
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Chaos

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I need, therefore I imagine.
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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.
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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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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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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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The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
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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 don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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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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Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.
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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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The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs the Peruvians descend from the Incas the Argentineans descend from the boats.
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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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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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The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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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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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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