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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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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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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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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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I have no literary fears.
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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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Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.
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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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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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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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