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Carlos Fuentes quotes

Mexican Novelist November 11, 1929 – May 15, 2012

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Carlos Fuentes quote: "Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have..."
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living. Carlos Fuentes
What is the strongest pretext for loving?...If it is necessary, our atomized consciousness invents love, imagines it or feigns it, but does not live without it, since in the midst of infinite dispersion, love, even if as a pretext , gives us the measure of our loss. Carlos Fuentes
Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists. Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes quote: "I love having critics for breakfast."
I love having critics for breakfast. Carlos Fuentes
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. Carlos Fuentes
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
Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention. Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes quote: "I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice..."
I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination. Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes quote: "I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family."
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family. Carlos Fuentes
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
The logic of the symbol does not express the experiment; it is the experiment. Language is the phenomenon, and the observation of the phenomenon changes its nature. Carlos Fuentes
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
Carlos Fuentes quote: "What the United States does best is to understand itself. What..."
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. Carlos Fuentes
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
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

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