Top 70 Carlos Fuentes Quotes (2024 Update)
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Carlos Fuentes Quote: “I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.”

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

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.”

52. “You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency.”

53. “Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought.”

54. “The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.”

55. “The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “In literature, you know only what you imagine.”

56. “In literature, you know only what you imagine.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.”

57. “Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.”

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Carlos Fuentes Quote: “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.”

58. “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.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.”

59. “Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “Since I neither want not can influence the events of the world, my mission is to preserve the internal integrity and equilibrium of my mind; that will be in which the manor in which I recover the purity of the original act; I shall be my own citadel, and to it I shall retire to protect myself against a hostile and corrupt world. I shall be my own citadel and, within it, my own and only citizen.”

60. “Since I neither want not can influence the events of the world, my mission is to preserve the internal integrity and equilibrium of my mind; that will be in which the manor in which I recover the purity of the original act; I shall be my own citadel, and to it I shall retire to protect myself against a hostile and corrupt world. I shall be my own citadel and, within it, my own and only citizen.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “But history does repeat itself; that is the comedy and the crime of history. Men learn nothing. Times change. Scenes change. Names change. But passions are the same.”

61. “But history does repeat itself; that is the comedy and the crime of history. Men learn nothing. Times change. Scenes change. Names change. But passions are the same.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.”

62. “Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “To live is to betray your God. Every act in life, every act that affirms us as living beings, requires that the commandments of your God be broken.”

63. “To live is to betray your God. Every act in life, every act that affirms us as living beings, requires that the commandments of your God be broken.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “I have no literary fears.”

64. “I have no literary fears.”

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Carlos Fuentes Quote: “I’ve lost audiences, I’ve recovered them.”

65. “I’ve lost audiences, I’ve recovered them.”

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Carlos Fuentes Quote: “I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.”

66. “I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.”

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Carlos Fuentes Quote: “I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.”

67. “I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.”

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Carlos Fuentes Quote: “The logic of the symbol does not express the experiment; it is the experiment. Language is the phenomenon, and the observation of the phenomenon changes its nature.”

68. “The logic of the symbol does not express the experiment; it is the experiment. Language is the phenomenon, and the observation of the phenomenon changes its nature.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “No, it’s not that they’re bad. It’s that they’re obliged to pretend they’re good. They’ve been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don’t want to be like that.”

69. “No, it’s not that they’re bad. It’s that they’re obliged to pretend they’re good. They’ve been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don’t want to be like that.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “Como que hay que guardar siempre las distancias, porque si no parece que se anda uno entregando demasiado.”

70. “Como que hay que guardar siempre las distancias, porque si no parece que se anda uno entregando demasiado.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “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.”

71. “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

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.”

72. “At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.”

73. “I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.”

74. “My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.”

75. “The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.”

76. “The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “He thought that even naturalness can be feigned; at times, a mask disguises too well the expressions of a face that does not exist either outside or under it.”

77. “He thought that even naturalness can be feigned; at times, a mask disguises too well the expressions of a face that does not exist either outside or under it.”

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Carlos Fuentes Quote: “Language is a shared and sharing part of a culture that cares little about formal classifications and much about vitality and connection, for culture itself perishes in purity or isolation, which is the deadly wages of perfection. Like bread and love, language is shared with others. And human beings share a tradition. There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.”

78. “Language is a shared and sharing part of a culture that cares little about formal classifications and much about vitality and connection, for culture itself perishes in purity or isolation, which is the deadly wages of perfection. Like bread and love, language is shared with others. And human beings share a tradition. There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Quote: “How to accept the diversity and mutilation of the world, while retaining the minds power for analogy and unity, so this changing world shall not become meaningless?”

79. “How to accept the diversity and mutilation of the world, while retaining the minds power for analogy and unity, so this changing world shall not become meaningless?”

— Carlos Fuentes

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