Carlos Fuentes Quotes

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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.

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  Art, Lying, Voice

  Carlos Fuentes (1976). “Don Quixote: Or, The Critique of Reading”

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• Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

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  Diversity, Migration, Like You

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• Writing is a struggle against silence.

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  Life, Beautiful, Struggle

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• Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

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  Connections, Culture, Separation

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

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  Genre

  "The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy" edited by Rick Simonson and Scott Walker, St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1988.

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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.

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  Writing, White, Black

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• I need, therefore I imagine.

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  Writing, Needs, Imagine

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• There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

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  Tradition, Creation

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• 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.

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  Optimistic, Optimism, Criticism

  "A Conversation With Author Carlos Fuentes". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 1987.

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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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  Imagination, Want, Not Interested

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• In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first place to economic fundamentalism, with its religious conviction that the market, left to its own devices, is capable of resolving all our problems. This faith has its own ayatollahs. Its church is neo-liberalism; its creed is profit; its prayers are for monopolies.

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  Religious, Prayer, Church

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• No government functions without the grease of corruption.

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  Government, Grease, Corruption

  Carlos Fuentes (2007). “The Eagle's Throne: A Novel”, p.37, Random House

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• 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.

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  Writing, Order, Stories

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

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  Opportunity, History, Giving

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• Memory is satisfied desire.

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  Memories, Desire, Satisfied

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• In literature, you know only what you imagine

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  Writing, Literature, Imagine

  Carlos Fuentes (2012). “This I Believe: An A-Z of a Writer's Life”, p.339, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

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  Order, Perfect, Horror

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

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  Teaching, Reading, Writing

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• Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.

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  Isolation, Absence, Filled

  Carlos Fuentes (2012). “Happy Families”, p.73, A&C Black

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• Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

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  Book, Past, Years

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• You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

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  Writing, Ends, Dies

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• Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

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  Literature, Privilege, Reason

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• 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.

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  Art, Fall, Risk

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• Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.

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  Sex, Eggs, Salt

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• chaos: it has no plural.

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  Chaos

  Carlos Fuentes (1964). “The death of Artemio Cruz”, Farrar, Straus

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