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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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Chaos

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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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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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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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The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs the Peruvians descend from the Incas the Argentineans descend from the boats.
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Memory is satisfied desire.
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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 women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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I need, therefore I imagine.
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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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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
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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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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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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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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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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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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 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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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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