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Carlos Fuentes Quotes (1928-2012)
Writer, Playwright, Novelist
About Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes Macías (November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright and critic. He taught in several American and British universities, and served as his country’s ambassador to France.
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“A tropical Mussolini”
“Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”
“No government functions without the grease of corruption.”
“What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.”
“The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you.”
“I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.”
“[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.”
“If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.”
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Carlos Fuentes on Mexico 2 quotes
“The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.”
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Carlos Fuentes on Hugo Chávez
“A tropical Mussolini.”
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Rosario Ferré interview on Carlos Fuentes
“I admire him a lot. He has done a lot to bring the Latin American situation to the American consciousness.”
Luisa Valenzuela on Carlos Fuentes
“Cortázar is the one who is closest to my way of understanding the act of writing. And nearer to my heart. I admire Carlos Fuentes on the opposite extreme of the equation. That is why I wrote a book on both of them, Entrecruzamientos: Cortázar/Fuentes.”
About Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes Macías (November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright and critic. He taught in several American and British universities, and served as his country’s ambassador to France.
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