"No, it's not that they're bad. It's that……" — 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 protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that."
—
Carlos Fuentes
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
72 Quotes by Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes has 72 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.
-
In literature, you know only what you imagine
-
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
-
In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.
-
Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
-
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search…
-
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
-
By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last…
-
What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
-
You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer…
-
In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first…
-
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going…
See all 72 quotes by Carlos Fuentes »
More Bad Quotes
This quote is filed under Bad Quotes,
one of 14,431 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
— Dario Argento
-
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
— Aristophanes
-
Bad men are full of repentance.
— Aristotle
-
It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's…
— Julian Assange
-
Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen…
— Richard Bach
-
I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -…
— Richard Armitage
-
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
-
If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
— Frank Abagnale
-
People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
— David Arquette
-
If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
— Arthur Ashe
-
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
— Isaac Asimov
-
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
— Chinua Achebe
See all 14,431 Bad Quotes »