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Carlos Fuentes Quotes

Mexican - Novelist | November 11, 1929 - May 15, 2012

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

Cuba Needs Dose

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

Life History Experience Opportunities

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Best Understand Worst Others United

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.

Support Search Help Beyond Existence

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.

Women Culture Brave Young Mexico

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.

Challenge Media Said Say Want Only

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

Life Imagination I Am Want Slice Am

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

Black Independence America Heritage

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.

Life Creative Free Camera Pen Being

The real bombs are my books, not me.

Me Real Books Bombs

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.

Live World Shadows Sometimes Way

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

Children Alive Who Am I Two Complain

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