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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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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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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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The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
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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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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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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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I need, therefore I imagine.
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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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chaos: it has no plural.
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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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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
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Memory is satisfied desire.
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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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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
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I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
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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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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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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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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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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
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