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Carlos Fuentes
11 quotes
“The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.”
Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962)
“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.”
Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Terra Nostra, Pt. 1, p. 253 (1975)
“What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.”
Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To See Ourselves as Others See Us", in Time, June 16, 1986.
“The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you.”
Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How I Started to Write", in Rick Simonson and Scott Walker (eds.) The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy (St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1988); cited from Myself With Others (London: Pan, 1989) p. 5.
“Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”
Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How I Started to Write", in Rick Simonson and Scott Walker (eds.) The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy (St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1988); cited from Myself With Others (London: Pan, 1989) p. 27.
“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.”
Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Doing It Our Way", New Statesman & Society, 2 February 1990, tr. Alfred MacAdam
“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 (1928–2012) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in International Herald Tribune (Paris, 5 November 1991)
“No government functions without the grease of corruption.”
Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: La Silla del Águila (The Eagle's Throne) (2003)
“[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.”
Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Anne-Marie O'Connor, "Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his country's future", Los Angeles Times, 26 April 2006
“Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, "My bombs are my books.”
Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About being denied a visa to the United States in the early 1960s after he praised the Cuban Revolution; as quoted by Anne-Marie O'Connor, "Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his country's future", Los Ange…
“A tropical Mussolini”
Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in The Economist, 19 May 2012, p. 90