“There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them.” PeopleRealityAcceptingSunGenerousTransparent Book:The old gringo Source: The old gringo
“The United States still thinks that Mexico is a nineteenth century industrial society. It isn't that any longer, it has to adapt to a new reality. But we have a grave responsibility in Mexico, which is to give work to our own people. As long as we have a system that denies work to 50 percent of the population, you'll have immigrants coming to the United States.” PeopleThinkingGivingLongRealityResponsibility Author:Carlos Fuentes
“Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made 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.” IfsMenNeedsFirstsMadeSelfRealityCommonAcceptingTechnologyFashionHeroRacismEthicsResilienceObjectivesCommon SenseCapitalistWork EthicImperialismSelf MadeObjective RealitySelf Made ManRobinson Crusoe Author:Carlos Fuentes
“For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.” ThinkingWorldBookEndsRealityLiterature Author:Carlos Fuentes
