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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
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 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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The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs the Peruvians descend from the Incas the Argentineans descend from the boats.
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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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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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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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I have no literary fears.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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Memory is satisfied desire.
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I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
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chaos: it has no plural.
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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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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!
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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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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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I need, therefore I imagine.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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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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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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