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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#book #down #head #i #must

I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#drawings #film #i #magazine #my own

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. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#america #back #backward #barbaric #because

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

— Carlos Fuentes

#experience #gives #history #life #literature

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#go #lot #project #staying #system

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#biography #death #like #off #own

I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#baby #big #egotistical #i #i can

My mother was always supportive. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#mother #supportive

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#historical #nation #problem #states #united

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. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#being #camera #century #creative #creative life