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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
Carlos Fuentes
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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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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 discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.
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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 need, therefore I imagine.
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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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The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs the Peruvians descend from the Incas the Argentineans descend from the boats.
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Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
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I have no literary fears.
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You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.
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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 must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
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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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I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
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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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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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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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