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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
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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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chaos: it has no plural.
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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
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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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You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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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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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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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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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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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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The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
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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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In literature, you know only what you imagine
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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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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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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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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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