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- Being
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
- Even
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
- Now
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There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
- Freedom
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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.
- Brave
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Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
- Back
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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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
- Ghraib
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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
- Media
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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.
- Imagination
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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
- History
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
- Horror
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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