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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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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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chaos: it has no plural.
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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
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