"I had the good fortune of having a……" — Carlos Fuentes
"I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family."
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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 Closely Quotes
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The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
— Dave Barry
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance…
— John Berger
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us…
— Annie Besant
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The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
— Buffalo Bill
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
— Jeff Bridges
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In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
— Pat Buchanan
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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If…
— Carlos Castaneda
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No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the…
— Deepak Chopra
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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
— Luc de Clapiers
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