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Carlos Fuentes

Profession : Novelist

Birth : November 11, 1929

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

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

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

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

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Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

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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'm a writer, not a genre.

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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

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Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.

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

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The real bombs are my books, not me.

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

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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.

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Work is what saves you.

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I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.

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The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.

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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

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

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Don't classify me, read me.

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