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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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Panamá
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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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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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Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.
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I have no literary fears.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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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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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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I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
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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.
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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 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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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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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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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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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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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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