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Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
Carlos Fuentes
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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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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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In literature, you know only what you imagine
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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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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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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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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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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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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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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 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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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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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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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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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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chaos: it has no plural.
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There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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