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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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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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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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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 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 must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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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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The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.
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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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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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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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