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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
Carlos Fuentes
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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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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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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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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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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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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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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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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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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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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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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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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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The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs the Peruvians descend from the Incas the Argentineans descend from the boats.
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Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
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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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The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
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Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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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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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
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