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Carlos Fuentes

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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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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.


— Carlos Fuentes


#family #fortune #good #good fortune #had

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.


— Carlos Fuentes


#horror #order #perfect

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


— Carlos Fuentes


#beyond #existence #help #mankind #must

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.


— Carlos Fuentes


#both #brave #close #contrary #culture

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.


— Carlos Fuentes


#dose #needs

Don't classify me, read me.


— Carlos Fuentes


#me #read

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.


— Carlos Fuentes


#books #friends #here #i #keep

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'


— Carlos Fuentes


#felt #i #i always #inside #little

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.


— Carlos Fuentes


#animal #ends #everything #i #i am






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Did you know about Carlos Fuentes?

Much later in his life he commented that "The United States is very good at understanding itself and very bad at understanding others. " Fuentes also criticized Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez dubbing him "a tropical Mussolini". His politics caused him to be blocked from entering the United States until a Congressional intervention in 1967.

Carlos Fuentes Macías (November 11 1928 – May 15 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. His many literary honors include the Miguel de Cervantes Prize as well as Mexico's highest award the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor.

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