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There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
Carlos Fuentes
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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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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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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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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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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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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 started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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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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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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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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Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.
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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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