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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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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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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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Memory is satisfied desire.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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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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Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
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I have no literary fears.
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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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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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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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