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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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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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In literature, you know only what you imagine
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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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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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I have no literary fears.
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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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I need, therefore I imagine.
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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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Memory is satisfied desire.
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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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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 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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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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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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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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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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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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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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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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