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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
Diplomat
Journalist
Lawyer
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Fortune
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.
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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 have no literary fears.
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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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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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chaos: it has no plural.
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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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Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it, in order to try to understand it.
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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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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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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
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