"Here among my books, my wife, my friends……" — Carlos Fuentes
"Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living."
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72 Quotes by Carlos Fuentes
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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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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with…
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