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1928–2012 Mexico

Carlos Fuentes Macías (November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright and critic. He taught in several American and British universities, and served as his country’s ambassador to France.

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The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.

The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you.

Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, "My bombs are my books."

But perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror; nature rejects that order, preferring instead to proceed with the multiple disorder of the certainty of freedom.

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

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.

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carlos Fuentes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.