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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

~Carlos Fuentes

Topics: Cuba Dose Needs

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I'm a writer, not a genre.

~Carlos Fuentes

Topics: Genre Writer

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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.

~Carlos Fuentes

Topics: Fighting Get Like Rows Time

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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

~Carlos Fuentes

Topics: Always Felt Inside Little Me Need Novel Now Protagonist Woman Worm Write You

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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

Topics: Allow Challenge Itself Mass Mass Media Media Narrative Novel Only Permit Respond Said Say Want

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The real bombs are my books, not me.

~Carlos Fuentes

Topics: Bombs Books Me Real

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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

~Carlos Fuentes

Topics: Before Book Down Head Must Now Out Sit Write

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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

Topics: Being Camera Century Creative Creative Life Fantastic Free Life Pen Possibility Prospect 21St Century

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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

Topics: Continue Cultures Existed Indian Live Magical Shadows Sometimes Veneer Way Which World Years

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U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.

~Carlos Fuentes

Topics: Against Black Foreign Foreign Policy Go Hat Hollywood Know Like Movie Policy Then White Who You

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Biography

Nationality: Mexican

Type: Novelist

Born: November 11th, 1929

Died: May 15th, 2012

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