"Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror." — Carlos Fuentes
"Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror."
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Carlos Fuentes
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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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More Forerunner Quotes
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Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
— Don Meyer
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Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.
— George W. Crane
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The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great…
— Charles Spurgeon
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For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
— Jim Capaldi
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Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of…
— Gautama Buddha
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SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions,…
— Joe Shuster
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If the divine Logos of God the Father became son of man and man so that He might make men…
— Maximus the Confessor
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