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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
Carlos Fuentes
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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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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 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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Memory is satisfied desire.
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