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> [One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-fuentes/one-puts-off-the-biography-like-you-put-off-death-to-write-an/)

[Carlos Fuentes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-fuentes/)

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## More by Carlos Fuentes

> [No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-fuentes/no-it-s-not-that-they-re-bad-it-s-that-they-re-obliged-to-pretend/)

[Carlos Fuentes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-fuentes/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-fuentes/contrary-to-the-macho-culture-of-mexico-both-my-grandmothers-were/)

[Carlos Fuentes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-fuentes/)

> [The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-fuentes/the-contract-between-the-author-and-the-reader-is-a-game-and-the-game/)

[Carlos Fuentes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-fuentes/)

> [Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-fuentes/love-can-isolate-us-from-everything-around-us-but-in-its-absence-we/)

[Carlos Fuentes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-fuentes/)

> [You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-fuentes/you-start-by-writing-to-live-you-end-by-writing-so-as-not-to-die/)

[Carlos Fuentes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-fuentes/)

> [“Because it’s a fucking disaster to be creative when you know you’re not Mozart or Keats. Dammit, I got tired of scratching around in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-fuentes/because-it-s-a-fucking-disaster-to-be-creative-when-you-know-you-re/)

[Carlos Fuentes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-fuentes/)

> [In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-fuentes/in-the-name-of-certainty-the-greatest-crimes-have-been-committed/)

[Carlos Fuentes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-fuentes/)

> [Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it, in order…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-fuentes/mexico-is-a-very-complex-mysterious-country-i-will-never-understand/)

[Carlos Fuentes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-fuentes/)

> [chaos: it has no plural.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-fuentes/chaos-it-has-no-plural/)

[Carlos Fuentes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-fuentes/)

> [“Sólo el imbécil no duda. Sólo el idiota no sufre".”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-fuentes/s-lo-el-imb-cil-no-duda-s-lo-el-idiota-no-sufre/)

[Carlos Fuentes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-fuentes/)

> [I have no literary fears.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-fuentes/i-have-no-literary-fears/)

[Carlos Fuentes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-fuentes/)

> [“You will have given another moment to the moment you are living and to the moments you are going to live; you have perverted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-fuentes/you-will-have-given-another-moment-to-the-moment-you-are-living-and/)

[Carlos Fuentes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-fuentes/)

> [I am a Mexican. The United States lived seventy-five years with the one party system in Mexico - the PRI - without batting an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-fuentes/i-am-a-mexican-the-united-states-lived-seventy-five-years-with-the/)

[Carlos Fuentes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-fuentes/)

> [“It is true that every mountain has four faces, and one tends to know but one. ― Carlos Fuentes, Terra Nostra”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-fuentes/it-is-true-that-every-mountain-has-four-faces-and-one-tends-to-know/)

[Carlos Fuentes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-fuentes/)

> [To read and write is a paradise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-fuentes/to-read-and-write-is-a-paradise/)

[Carlos Fuentes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-fuentes/)

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