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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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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
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Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
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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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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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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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