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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.
Carlos Fuentes
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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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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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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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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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chaos: it has no plural.
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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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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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