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- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real bombs are my books, not me.
- Historical
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- Nov 07, 2020
The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
- Except
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
- Saves
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work is what saves you.
- Literary
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no literary fears.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
- Critics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love having critics for breakfast.
- Dose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't classify me, read me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a writer, not a genre.
- Lost
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