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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.
Carlos Fuentes
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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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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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The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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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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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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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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chaos: it has no plural.
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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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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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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
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Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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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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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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Memory is satisfied desire.
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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
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There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
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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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