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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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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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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 need, therefore I imagine.
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Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it, in order to try to understand it.
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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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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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There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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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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Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
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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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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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The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
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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 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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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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