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In literature, you know only what you imagine

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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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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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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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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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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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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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Memory is satisfied desire.
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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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No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.
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I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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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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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
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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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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
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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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