My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go. Carlos Fuentes More Quotes by Carlos Fuentes More Quotes From Carlos Fuentes The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment. Carlos Fuentes resentmentlanguagespring 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 fantasticcamerascreative Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists. Carlos Fuentes filledisolationabsence chaos: it has no plural. Carlos Fuentes chaos What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others. Carlos Fuentes worstdoeamerica I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck. Carlos Fuentes riskartfall Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror. Carlos Fuentes horrorperfectorder 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 recordsiraqrights The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness. Carlos Fuentes intelligencemexicansoul The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats. Carlos Fuentes peruviansboatsarcastic Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal. Carlos Fuentes incrediblesanimalfirsts Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy. Carlos Fuentes fightingoppositeswriting I have never considered myself a writer in exile because I grew up outside of my own country, because my father was a diplomat. Therefore, I grew up in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, the United States, I studied in Switzerland - so I've always had perspective on my country - I am thankful for that. Carlos Fuentes perspectivecountryfather By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word. Carlos Fuentes finalsbecominglasts The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself. Carlos Fuentes men-and-womenmen In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics. Carlos Fuentes atheistlatinamerica 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 winningbelievebook 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. Carlos Fuentes mexicanblackpast There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it. Carlos Fuentes barbarismsupporthelping When we have a better, more social, more responsible, less egotistical, less corrupt system, Mexico will be able to give work to the millions of Mexicans who have to build our roads, dams, schools, all the things that are left undone in Mexico while we have the manpower. There is something very bad going on, on both sides of the border in Mexico and the US. But the worker is a worker, not a criminal. So, I am in favor of a solution such as the Kennedy-McCain proposals that make it clear what steps have to be taken to accept the fact that the US needs foreign workers. Carlos Fuentes takengivingschool
