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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
Carlos Fuentes
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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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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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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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Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.
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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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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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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
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There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
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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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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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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 like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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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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Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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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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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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