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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 French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.
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chaos: it has no plural.
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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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In literature, you know only what you imagine
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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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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Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
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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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Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency
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Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.
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I need, therefore I imagine.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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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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Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
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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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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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