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Carlos Fuentes
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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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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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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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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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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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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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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 start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
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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 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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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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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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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
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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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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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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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There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
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