"What America does best is to understand itself.……" — Carlos Fuentes
"What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others."
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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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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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For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don…
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as…
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself…
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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