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The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.
- Carlos Fuentes
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#Good
#Others
#Understanding
#United
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
- Carlos Fuentes
#Best
#Others
#Understand
#United
#Worst
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
- Carlos Fuentes
#Diplomacy
#Fight
#Lady
#She
#Yourself
The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
- Carlos Fuentes
#Admit
#Historical
#Nation
#United
Don't classify me, read me.
- Carlos Fuentes
#Classify
#Me
#Read
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
- Carlos Fuentes
#Animal
#Everything
#I Am
#Literature
#Me
I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
- Carlos Fuentes
#I Am
#Imagination
#Life
#Not Interested
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
- Carlos Fuentes
#Concentration
#Done
#Nothing
#Writing
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
- Carlos Fuentes
#Beyond
#Existence
#Help
#Search
#Support
The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.
- Carlos Fuentes
#Black
#Caribbean
#History
#Now
#White
I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
- Carlos Fuentes
#Fighting
#Get
#Like
#Rows
#Time
Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
- Carlos Fuentes
#America
#Black
#Heritage
#Independence
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
- Carlos Fuentes
#Forerunner
#Horror
#Order
#Perfect
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
- Carlos Fuentes
#Experience
#History
#Life
#Literature
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
#21st Century
#Camera
#Free
#Life
#Pen
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