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Carlos Fuentes
Mexican
Novelist
Born:
Nov 11
,
1929
Died:
May 15
,
2012
Always
Am
Me
States
Writing
You
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Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
Carlos Fuentes
Independence
Black
Become
Heritage
Progressive
Back
Our
Considered
France
Liberated
Latin
Latin America
Backward
Indian
Triple
Colonies
Towards
Like
Looked
Democratic
Because
Were
Mexico
America
After
Newly
Spanish
Republics
Barbaric
Them
Turned
England
I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
Carlos Fuentes
Life
Imagination
Slice
Am
Want
Not Interested
Interested
In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
Carlos Fuentes
Latin
Latin America
Atheists
Catholics
America
Even
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
Carlos Fuentes
You
Fight
Yourself
Writing
Diplomacy
Trouble
Sense
Secretary
Embassy
Students
Had
Crying
She
Because
Imports
Opposite
Lady
Much
Who
Exports
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
Carlos Fuentes
Horror
Perfect
Forerunner
Order
What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
Carlos Fuentes
Rights
Prison
Human Rights
Monstrous
Ghraib
Record
Simply
Abu
Geneva
Iraq
Human
Happened
Conventions
Violations
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
Carlos Fuentes
Best
Others
States
Worst
Understand
Does
Itself
United
United States
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
Carlos Fuentes
Imagination
Analogy
Lot
Use
Film
Images
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
Carlos Fuentes
Me
Animal
Everything
Am
Ends
Literary
Literature
The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.
Carlos Fuentes
Needs
History
Black
White
Caribbean
States
Latino
Indian
Write
Written
Asian
Now
United
United States
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
Carlos Fuentes
World
Philanthropy
Everyone
Economic
New
Concerned
Exercise
Self-Interest
New World
Order
Enlightened
The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.
Carlos Fuentes
Good
Understanding
Others
States
Bad
Itself
Very
United
United States
Work is what saves you.
Carlos Fuentes
Work
You
Saves
I have no literary fears.
Carlos Fuentes
Fears
Literary
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
Carlos Fuentes
Death
Me
Win
Looking
Believe
Books
Would
Bore
Give
Something
Rather
Like
Make
Readers
Ready-Made
Go
Than
Expecting
Public
Them
Create
I love having critics for breakfast.
Carlos Fuentes
Love
Breakfast
Critics
Having
Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
Carlos Fuentes
Needs
Cuba
Dose
Don't classify me, read me.
Carlos Fuentes
Me
Classify
Read
I'm a writer, not a genre.
Carlos Fuentes
Writer
Genre
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
Carlos Fuentes
Before
Complain
Alive
About
Reaching
Am
Died
Being
Children
Who
Who Am I
Two
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
Carlos Fuentes
Good
Family
Happy
Having
Had
Knit
Closely
Fortune
Good Fortune
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
Carlos Fuentes
Latin
Latin America
States
Dictatorships
America
Century
Much
United
United States
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