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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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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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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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I’ve been thrashed by the critics. I love having critics for breakfast. I’ve been having them for 30 years in Mexico - just eating them like chicken and then throwing the bones away. They have not survived, I have!
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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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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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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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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There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
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The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
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Memory is satisfied desire.
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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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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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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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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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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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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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Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.
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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
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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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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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