And don't give me the same old story:
"We're in Mexico. Pray."
You'd be better off taking a snake rattle.

Carlos Fuentes


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Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Fuentes

Tags: writing-process



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Yo no soy mexicano. Yo no soy gringo. Yo no soy chicano. No soy gringo en USA y mexicano en Mexico. Soy chicano en todas partes. No tengo que asimilarme a nada. Tengo mi propia historia.

Carlos Fuentes

Tags: immigration culture us-history méxico chicano mexican-american carlos-fuentes border frontera la-frontera-de-cristal mexican-american-history mexicano mexico-us



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She begins to feel that the reality show is the university she never attended. Vicarious reality. Emotion without a value-added tax. Movement without danger. Alma finds her reality. She no longer has a reason to put herself at risk and go out into the hostile, degrading world.

Carlos Fuentes

Tags: safety emotion reality-tv



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Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention.

Carlos Fuentes

Tags: affection respect attention



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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

Tags: love isolation



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No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.

Carlos Fuentes

Tags: judgmental-people pretending



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I dalje verujem da Sunce izlazi svakoga dana i da svako novo Sunce najavljuje novi dan;dan koji je juče bio budućnost. I dalje verujem da će današnji dan, u trenutku zatvaranja jedne stranice vremena, obećati sutra – ranije nepredvidivo, kasnije neponovljivo

Carlos Fuentes

Tags: hope new-day



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Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Carlos Fuentes

Tags: immigration diversity refugees



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Powiedział, że Hiszpania dla Hiszpanów jest tym, czym Meksyk dla Meksykanów - bolesną obsesją. Dla nich Ojczyzna nie jest, jak dla Amerykanów, hymnem optymizmu ani, jak dla Anglików, flegmatycznym żartem, ani też, jak dla Rosjan, sentymentalnym szaleństwem, lub, jak dla Francuzów, racjonalną ironią, czy - jak dla Niemców - agresywnym rozkazem, ale konfliktem dwóch połówek, dwóch przeciwstawnych części, dzieleniem duszy na kawałki, Hiszpania, Meksyk, kraje słońca i cienia.

Carlos Fuentes


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