Best Quotes by Carlos Fuentes (Top 10)
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I need, therefore I imagine.
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Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.
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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
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Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
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Writing is a struggle against silence.
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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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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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Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
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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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There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.
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More Carlos Fuentes Quotes
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If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.
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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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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
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You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer to remember, there lying in the half-darkness of the bedroom, not what has happened already but what is going to happen. In your half-darkness your eyes would prefer to look ahead, not behind, and they do not know how to foresee the past.
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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.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.
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