Claude Debussy Quotes


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 Culture 156
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. Carlos Fuentes America 102
Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me. Carlos Fuentes Diversity 94
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 81
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 Respect 78
I like fighting. I get into rows all the time. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 77
Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world – which have existed for 30,000 years! – continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 76
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. Carlos Fuentes History 74
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 Uncategorized 73
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive? Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 64
Culture consists of connections not of separations to specialize is to isolate. Carlos Fuentes Culture 64
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 History 59
The logic of the symbol does not express the experiment it is the experiment. Language is the phenomenon and the observation of the phenomenon changes its nature. Carlos Fuentes Language 56
I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 56
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family. Carlos Fuentes Family 56
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 51
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 Death 48
Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword. Carlos Fuentes Language 45
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 44
Writing is a struggle against silence. Carlos Fuentes Writing process 44
I love having critics for breakfast. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 43
Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable this last is the possibility of literature. Carlos Fuentes Language 43
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination. Carlos Fuentes Imagination 43
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror. Carlos Fuentes Forerunner 42
I'm a writer, not a genre. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 40
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 40
Deja que toda tu nostalgia emigre todos tus cabos sueltos comienza todos los das en el parto. Carlos Fuentes Inspirational life 39
Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 39
The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being narrative and freedom to be new novel in a speech open to all and to be free in a speech that never concludes. Carlos Fuentes Story 39
Cuba needs a dose of perestroika. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 38
The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 38
I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination. Carlos Fuentes Imagination 37
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 36
The real bombs are my books, not me. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 36
The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 35
Robinson Crusoe the first capitalist hero is a selfmade man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic common sense resilience technology and if need be racism and imperialism. Carlos Fuentes Capitalism 34
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 32
In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 32
I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 31
I have no literary fears. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 30
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 30
My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 29
Te pido tan solo que veas en ese gran amor que dices tenerme algo suficiente algo que pueda llenarnos a los dos sin necesidad de recurrir a la imaginacin enfermiza. Carlos Fuentes Amor 28
There is no creation without tradition the new is an inflection on a preceding form novelty is always a variation on the past. Carlos Fuentes Creation 28
What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media – to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative – to allow it to be itself. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 28
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. Carlos Fuentes Experience 27
By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word. Carlos Fuentes Authors 24
Work is what saves you. Carlos Fuentes Uncategorized 22

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