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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
Carlos Fuentes
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.
Carlos Fuentes
Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
Carlos Fuentes
There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
Carlos Fuentes
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.
Carlos Fuentes
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.
Carlos Fuentes
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 women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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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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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
Carlos Fuentes
I have no literary fears.
Carlos Fuentes
In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
Carlos Fuentes
I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
Carlos Fuentes
The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.
Carlos Fuentes
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
Carlos Fuentes
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
Carlos Fuentes
What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
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