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Carlos Fuentes

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I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.


— Carlos Fuentes


#i #lost #recovered #them

In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.


— Carlos Fuentes


#atheists #catholics #even #latin #latin america

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.


— Carlos Fuentes


#experience #gives #history #life #literature

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.


— Carlos Fuentes


#go #lot #project #staying #system

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.


— Carlos Fuentes


#biography #death #like #off #own

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.


— Carlos Fuentes


#historical #nation #problem #states #united

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.


— Carlos Fuentes


#economic #enlightened #everyone #exercise #new

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.


— Carlos Fuentes


#being #camera #century #creative #creative life

The real bombs are my books, not me.


— Carlos Fuentes


#books #me #real

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.


— Carlos Fuentes


#america #century #dictatorships #latin #latin america






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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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