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I wrote it to show that not all mother-in-laws are bad.
~ Carlos Fuentes Quote

It was pretty impressive to score that high without our top individual. The rest of the girls really came through. I'm proud of them.
~ Carlos Fuentes Quote

They were determined. I tell them that beam, more than anything, is just mental. It's just a matter of executing.
~ Carlos Fuentes Quote

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal,
~ Carlos Fuentes Quote

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
~ Carlos Fuentes Quote

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.
~ Carlos Fuentes Quote

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.
~ Carlos Fuentes Quote

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
~ Carlos Fuentes Quote

If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.
~ Carlos Fuentes Quote

Human kind will prevail. And it will prevail because, in spite of the reaction of history, novels tell that art restores right in us that was disregarded by history. History is being what was, then literature offers what history has not always been,
~ Carlos Fuentes Quote