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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
Carlos Fuentes
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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
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Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
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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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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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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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I have no literary fears.
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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 am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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Memory is satisfied desire.
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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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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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Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.
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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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