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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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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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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
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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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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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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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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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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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