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Carlos Fuentes Quotes

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror Picture Quote #1

Memory is satisfied desire Picture Quote #1

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika Picture Quote #1

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination Picture Quote #1

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die Picture Quote #1

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family Picture Quote #1

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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others Picture Quote #1

Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, my bombs are my books Picture Quote #1

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination Picture Quote #1

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go Picture Quote #1

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States Picture Quote #1

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself Picture Quote #1

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive? Picture Quote #1

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word Picture Quote #1

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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living Picture Quote #1

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it Picture Quote #1

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't 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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

No, it’s not that they’re bad. It’s that they’re obliged to pretend they’re good. They’ve been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don’t want to be like that Picture Quote #1

The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought Picture Quote #1

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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) Memory is satisfied desire (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) Cuba needs a dose of perestroika (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, my bombs are my books (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) 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 (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States (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 (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) 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 (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing (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 (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy (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 (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) 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 (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive? (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living (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 (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't 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 Quotes) 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 (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) No, it’s not that they’re bad. It’s that they’re obliged to pretend they’re good. They’ve been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don’t want to be like that (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought (Carlos Fuentes Quotes)

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