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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
Carlos Fuentes
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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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Panamá
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I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
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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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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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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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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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Memory is satisfied desire.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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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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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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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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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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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 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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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
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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 women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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In literature, you know only what you imagine
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