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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
Carlos Fuentes
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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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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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Memory is satisfied desire.
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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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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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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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Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
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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 am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.
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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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The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
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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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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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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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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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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 had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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