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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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Memory is satisfied desire.
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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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There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
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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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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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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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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’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 have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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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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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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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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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
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