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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
Diplomat
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Novelist
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Panamá
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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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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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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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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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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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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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Memory is satisfied desire.
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The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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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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Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.
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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
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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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chaos: it has no plural.
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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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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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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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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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