"The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians……" — Carlos Fuentes
"The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats."
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72 Quotes by Carlos Fuentes
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- 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…
- For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don…
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