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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

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.' — Carlos Fuentes

The real bombs are my books, not me. — Carlos Fuentes

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

I love having critics for breakfast. — Carlos Fuentes

Girls like you want to cut guy's nuts off and hang 'em from your rearview mirror. — Simone Elkeles

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

I have no literary fears. — 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

What happens when I break one of your fuckin' rules? — Simone Elkeles

In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity. — Carlos Fuentes

You will wish and not wish to see. — Carlos Fuentes

Memory is satisfied desire. — Carlos Fuentes

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down. — Carlos Fuentes

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika. — Carlos Fuentes

Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire ... is one Monarch and one Sword. — Carlos Fuentes

Did you know we know we are all the object of another's imagination? — Carlos Fuentes

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

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

Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa."
"What does it mean?"
"You're beautiful. — Simone Elkeles

Do you ever lose the ego?" Westford asks me.
"Yeah." When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window. — Simone Elkeles

Do I hear a challenge?" she whispers, "Oh, Carlos. You know I can't resist a challenge. — Simone Elkeles

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word. — Carlos Fuentes

I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings. — Carlos Fuentes

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that. — Carlos Fuentes

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. — Carlos Fuentes

Myth is a past with a future, exercising itself in the present. — Carlos Fuentes

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself. — Carlos Fuentes

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

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

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

The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel. — Carlos Fuentes

The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment. — Carlos Fuentes

Don't classify me, read me. — Carlos Fuentes

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me. — Carlos Fuentes

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal. — Carlos Fuentes

Did we come here to laugh or cry ? Are we dying or being born ? — Carlos Fuentes

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination. — Carlos Fuentes

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

Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it. — Carlos Fuentes

Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature. — 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

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre. — 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

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

Chaos: it has no plural. — Carlos Fuentes

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other. — Carlos Fuentes

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate. — Carlos Fuentes

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die. — Carlos Fuentes

Can I request another peer guide, One who isn't so happy to be at school at 7:30 a.m.? — Simone Elkeles

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation. — Carlos Fuentes

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination. — 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

No government functions without the grease of corruption. — 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

Dios mio, I think my brother lost his balls somewhere between here and Mexico. Or maybe Brittany has them zipped inside that fancy purse (of hers). — Simone Elkeles

Next time I want to do something nice, slap me. — Simone Elkeles

Work is what saves you. — Carlos Fuentes

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go. — Carlos Fuentes

In literature, you know only what you imagine — Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence. — Carlos Fuentes

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living. — Carlos Fuentes

At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window. — Carlos Fuentes

We shall have nothing to say in regard to our own death. — Carlos Fuentes

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family. — Carlos Fuentes

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive? — Carlos Fuentes

Want to get in trouble with me, Carlos? — Simone Elkeles

The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats. — 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

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