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" What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. "
Carlos Fuentes
Others
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" I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing. "
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" The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation. "
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" 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. "
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" I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination. "
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" Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. "
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" 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. "
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" You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican. "
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" Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living. "
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" One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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