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Carlos Fuentes Quotes

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: mexican
Birth: November 11, 1929 - May 15, 2012

Topics

World Exercise New Everyone Order

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

Fool Chance Paradise Only Would He

I went to so many sleepovers where these parents were reading the 'Book of Revelation' before bed and things like that. I would listen to that stuff, and I would sit there and say to myself, 'If God is so great and so good, why is there this list of rules?' Like, you go to hell if you don't believe in him and hold him up above everyone else.

Good God Great Myself Parents Book

Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of imponderables makes it impossible to sentence by formula and still sentence justly.

Impossible Circumstances Motives

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

Book Eight About Months Spend

Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.

Kindness Welcome Always Fashionable

I love singing, and I used to perform quite a lot, but now, as a director, you just tend to watch other people perform and tell them what to do.

Love People Singing You Now Tell

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

History World Arts Martial Arts Were

I can cook really complicated recipes, but it takes a real talent to do the perfect egg.

Talent Egg Perfect I Can Complicated

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

Live People Way Only General About

Plutocrats were the chief beneficiaries of so-called neoliberalism and the suite of political changes it brought beginning in the late 1970s - deregulation, weaker protection for unions, the shareholder value movement, and the subsequent inflation of executive compensation.

Chrystia Freeland

Beginning Value Political Late

My parents have been together since 1963, so that's something.

Together Parents Something Been

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

Life Habit Performance Connection

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