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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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Civilization

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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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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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Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
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Memory is satisfied desire.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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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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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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