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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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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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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
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Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
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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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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 Mexicans descend from the Aztecs the Peruvians descend from the Incas the Argentineans descend from the boats.
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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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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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