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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
Diplomat
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Lawyer
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Panamá
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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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’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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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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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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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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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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Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.
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Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
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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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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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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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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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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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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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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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The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs the Peruvians descend from the Incas the Argentineans descend from the boats.
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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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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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