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Carlos Fuentes Quotes

I love having critics for breakfast Picture Quote #1

The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others Picture Quote #1

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal Picture Quote #1

What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others Picture Quote #1

The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness Picture Quote #1

What’s happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous Picture Quote #1

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Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more 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 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

U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It’s like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat Picture Quote #1

All that was left to me was certain images and all of them spoke to me of the collapse of a cruel world and the slow construction in its stead of another world, equally cruel 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 she’s had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy Picture Quote #1

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Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women Picture Quote #1

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate Picture Quote #1

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me Picture Quote #1

In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity Picture Quote #1

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing Picture Quote #1

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature Picture Quote #1

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I have no literary fears Picture Quote #1

I like fighting. I get into rows all the time Picture Quote #1

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down Picture Quote #1

I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings Picture Quote #1

I’ve lost audiences, I’ve recovered them Picture Quote #1

In literature, you know only what you imagine Picture Quote #1

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Writing is a struggle against silence Picture Quote #1

Don’t classify me, read me. I’m a writer, not a genre Picture Quote #1

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal Picture Quote #1

Chaos: it has no plural Picture Quote #1

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other Picture Quote #1

I need, therefore I imagine Picture Quote #1

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I love having critics for breakfast (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) What’s happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) 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 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 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) U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It’s like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat. (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) All that was left to me was certain images and all of them spoke to me of the collapse of a cruel world and the slow construction in its stead of another world, equally cruel. (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 she’s had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy. (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) I have no literary fears (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) I like fighting. I get into rows all the time (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) I’ve lost audiences, I’ve recovered them (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) In literature, you know only what you imagine (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) Writing is a struggle against silence (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) Don’t classify me, read me. I’m a writer, not a genre (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) Chaos: it has no plural (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other (Carlos Fuentes Quotes) I need, therefore I imagine (Carlos Fuentes Quotes)

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