"Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to……" — Carlos Fuentes
"Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate."
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72 Quotes by Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes has 72 quotes on this site.
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The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.
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In literature, you know only what you imagine
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.
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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search…
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Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
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By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last…
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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer…
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In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first…
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Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going…
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More Connections Quotes
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of…
— Saint Augustine
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People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.
— Paul Auster
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
— Gaston Bachelard
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I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that.…
— Matthew Barney
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard…
— Samuel Adams
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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
— Martha Beck
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become…
— John Berger
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
— Rachel Bilson
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In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if…
— Juliette Binoche
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Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing.…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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