"The real bombs are my books, not me." — Carlos Fuentes

"The real bombs are my books, not me."

— Carlos Fuentes

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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…

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An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to… — John Ashcroft
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I don't regret setting bombs. — Bill Ayers
We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task. — Theodore Bikel
A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force. — William Blum
We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops. — Simon Le Bon
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. — Spiro T. Agnew
There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb. — Elayne Boosler
We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off. — Abdallah II
There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent… — Harry Browne
For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive… — James Buchan

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