"You start by writing to live. You end……" — Carlos Fuentes
"You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die."
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72 Quotes by Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes has 72 quotes on this site.
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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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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
— Mary Kay Ash
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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you…
— Mary Kay Ash
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
— Isaac Asimov
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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
— Bashar al-Assad
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular…
— Charles Babbage
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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to…
— Joan Baez
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When I die I want to go to Vogue.
— David Bailey
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
— Honore de Balzac
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