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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
Carlos Fuentes
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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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Panamá
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Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.
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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
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I need, therefore I imagine.
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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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The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs the Peruvians descend from the Incas the Argentineans descend from the boats.
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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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Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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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 am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
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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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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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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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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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Memory is satisfied desire.
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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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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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