Carlos Fuentes

Quotes by Carlos Fuentes

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Writer · Mexican · 1928–2012

Mexican writer (1928–2012)

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“No government functions without the grease of corruption.”
— Carlos Fuentes

“[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 all...”
— Carlos Fuentes

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

“A tropical Mussolini”
— Carlos Fuentes

“I was influenced by all of them-by García Márquez, by [[Carlos Fuentes, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, José Donoso, so many of them-some of my own generation, like Eduardo Galeano. It's easy fo...”
— Carlos Fuentes

“I admire him a lot. He has done a lot to bring the Latin American situation to the American consciousness.”
— Carlos Fuentes

“Cortázar is the one who is closest to my way of understanding the act of writing. And nearer to my heart. I admire Carlos Fuentes on the opposite extreme of the equation. That is why I wrote a book...”
— Carlos Fuentes