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Famous Carlos Fuentes Quotes
“The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.”
“Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.”
“There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.”
“I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.”
“I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.”
“Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.”
“I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.”
“I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.”
“I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?”
“I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.”
“I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.”
“My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.”