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I have no literary fears.

Carlos Fuentes

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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
Diplomat
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Panamá
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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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The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
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I need, therefore I imagine.
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I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
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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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The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs the Peruvians descend from the Incas the Argentineans descend from the boats.
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In literature, you know only what you imagine
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Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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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 had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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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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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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chaos: it has no plural.
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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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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
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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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Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.
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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
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