Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention.

— Carlos Fuentes

All that was left to me was certain images and all of them spoke to me of the collapse of a cruel world and the slow construction in its stead of another world, equally cruel.

— Carlos Fuentes

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— Carlos Fuentes

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

— Carlos Fuentes

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

— Carlos Fuentes

He himself felt defeated because he was fighting against something he did not hate, because he did not understand the fratricidal hatred between the sons of Araby and Israel, and because he loved and knew and appreciated and wanted to save the merits of their cultures, although not the cruelty of their powers; he knew and loved the fountains and the gardens and the patios and high towers of landaus, the nature that has been made more beautiful by man for man's pleasure, not for his mortification.

— Carlos Fuentes

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

— Carlos Fuentes

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— Carlos Fuentes

I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.

— Carlos Fuentes

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

— Carlos Fuentes