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Carlos Fuentes

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The logic of the symbol does not express the experiment; it is the experiment. Language is the phenomenon, and the observation of the phenomenon changes its nature.


— Carlos Fuentes


#language #phenomenon #symbol #change

El amor posee una fuerza sin límites que se llama la imaginación.


— Carlos Fuentes


#love #imagination

I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.


— Carlos Fuentes


#get #i #into #like #rows

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?


— Carlos Fuentes


#alive #am #before #being #children

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.


— Carlos Fuentes


#dose #needs

I have no literary fears.


— Carlos Fuentes


#i #literary

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.


— Carlos Fuentes


#i #i am #imagination #interested #life

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.


— Carlos Fuentes


#both #brave #close #contrary #culture

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.


— Carlos Fuentes


#family #fortune #good #good fortune #had

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.


— Carlos Fuentes


#animal #ends #everything #i #i am






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Did you know about Carlos Fuentes?

Much later in his life he commented that "The United States is very good at understanding itself and very bad at understanding others. " Fuentes also criticized Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez dubbing him "a tropical Mussolini". His politics caused him to be blocked from entering the United States until a Congressional intervention in 1967.

Carlos Fuentes Macías (November 11 1928 – May 15 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. His many literary honors include the Miguel de Cervantes Prize as well as Mexico's highest award the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor.

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