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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.
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 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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There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
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The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
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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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I need, therefore I imagine.
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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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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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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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Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.
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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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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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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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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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In literature, you know only what you imagine
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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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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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Memory is satisfied desire.
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