"Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history."

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Source : Carlos Fuentes (1976). “Don Quixote: Or, The Critique of Reading”

Carlos Fuentes

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“It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.”
“Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male friends - find themselves taking anti-anxiety, psychotropic drugs. It seems like everybody I know is wondering if they're really who they are, or once the prescription runs out, will they become someone different?”
“Maybe being an artist is a kind of detachment. You're in the cave, you're isolated, you're apart from everything and it's there you can find out what you believe in, or what is - what is the nature of being, as you see it.”

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“Joy is realized as the natural by-product of the passionate pursuit of something other than happiness.”
“I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.”
“Conflict is part of being a foreign correspondent; spending long hours talking to politicians in capitals is another part of it.”
“There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that child should not live, when killing the newborn baby is not at all wrong ... not like killing the chimpanzee would be.”
“History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."”

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