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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
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
— Carlos Fuentes
Finished, the book begins.
— Carlos Fuentes
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
— Carlos Fuentes
The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.
— Carlos Fuentes
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
— Carlos Fuentes
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
— Carlos Fuentes
Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.
— Carlos Fuentes
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
— Carlos Fuentes
The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.
— Carlos Fuentes
By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.
— Carlos Fuentes
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
— Carlos Fuentes
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
— Carlos Fuentes
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
There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
— Carlos Fuentes
I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
— Carlos Fuentes
Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.
— Carlos Fuentes
Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
— Carlos Fuentes
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
What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
— Carlos Fuentes
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
— Carlos Fuentes
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
— Carlos Fuentes
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
— Carlos Fuentes
No government functions without the grease of corruption.
— Carlos Fuentes
I'm a writer, not a genre.
— Carlos Fuentes
In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
— Carlos Fuentes
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
"We're in Mexico. Pray."
You'd be better off taking a snake rattle. — Carlos Fuentes
Chaos: it has no plural.
— Carlos Fuentes
Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.
— Carlos Fuentes
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
— Carlos Fuentes
I'm in deep shit Alex, 'cause I think I'd like nothin' better than to wake up with her every mornin'.
— Simone Elkeles