Carlos Fuentes
Mexican novelist and essayist
Lived from: 1928 - 2012
Category: Writers (Contemporary)
Born: 11 november 1928 Died: 15 may 2012
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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
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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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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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Was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.
Quoted in Anne-Marie OConnor, Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his countrys future, Los Angeles Times, 26 April 2006― Carlos Fuentes -
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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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
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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.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
― Carlos Fuentes
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