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Carlos Fuentes Quotes
Brief author info: Carlos Fuentes (1928- ) Mexican novelist.
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There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency
The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.
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Inspirational Quote
Here is the secret of inspiration: tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
Funny Quote
The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
Strength Quote
Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes it's letting go.
Age Quote
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we are born.
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