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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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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’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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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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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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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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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 don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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