Quote

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

Carlos Fuentes

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
Diplomat
Journalist
Lawyer
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Panamá
Separations
Specialize
Isolate
Consists
Separation
Connections
Culture

More quotes by Carlos Fuentes

Image
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.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
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
Carlos Fuentes
Image
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.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
In literature, you know only what you imagine
Carlos Fuentes
Image
The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
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.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
I have no literary fears.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
Carlos Fuentes
Image
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.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
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.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
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!
Carlos Fuentes
Image
I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
Carlos Fuentes
Image
Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
Carlos Fuentes