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Carlos Fuentes quotes: Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole. Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.' I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
Carlos Fuentes quotes: The real bombs are my books, not me. The real bombs are my books, not me.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: 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. 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.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: I love having critics for breakfast. I love having critics for breakfast.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century. The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Finished, the book begins. Finished, the book begins.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature. I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: I have no literary fears. I have no literary fears.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others. The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: 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. 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.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Did you know we know we are all the object of another's imagination? Did you know we know we are all the object of another's imagination?
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that. Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: You will wish and not wish to see. You will wish and not wish to see.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Memory is satisfied desire. Memory is satisfied desire.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down. I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Cuba needs a dose of perestroika. Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire ... is one Monarch and one Sword. Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire ... is one Monarch and one Sword.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century. The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall downand break your neck. 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.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings. I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity. In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Myth is a past with a future, exercising itself in the present. Myth is a past with a future, exercising itself in the present.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word. By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself. The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention. Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more. Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment. The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel. The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Don't classify me, read me. Don't classify me, read me.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me. Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Did we come here to laugh or cry ? Are we dying or being born ? Did we come here to laugh or cry ? Are we dying or being born ?
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal. Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination. I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past. There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it. Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists. Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death. One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: No government functions without the grease of corruption. No government functions without the grease of corruption.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination. I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation. The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die. You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate. Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature. Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Chaos: it has no plural. Chaos: it has no plural.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: And don't give me the same old story:"We're in Mexico. Pray."You'd be better off taking a snake rattle. And don't give me the same old story:
"We're in Mexico. Pray."
You'd be better off taking a snake rattle.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics. In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: I'm a writer, not a genre. I'm a writer, not a genre.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned. The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal. Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre. Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others. What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family. I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other. Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt. Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: I like fighting. I get into rows all the time. I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned. There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror. Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it. There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats. The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive? I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
Carlos Fuentes quotes: We shall have nothing to say in regard to our own death. We shall have nothing to say in regard to our own death.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window. At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living. Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Writing is a struggle against silence. Writing is a struggle against silence.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: In literature, you know only what you imagine In literature, you know only what you imagine
Carlos Fuentes quotes: My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go. My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
Carlos Fuentes quotes: Work is what saves you. Work is what saves you.

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