Marangelly Fuentes Quotes

The mystery of other individuals, señor caballero, is ordinarily grief we neither share nor understand. ~ Carlos Fuentes

The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel. ~ Carlos Fuentes

Finished, the book begins. ~ Carlos Fuentes

Memory is satisfied desire. ~ Carlos Fuentes

We shall have nothing to say in regard to our own death. ~ Carlos Fuentes

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

Writing is a struggle against silence. ~ Carlos Fuentes

Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole. ~ Carlos Fuentes

... is it the young who pass death to the old, or do the old bequeath it to the young?
― Carlos Fuentes, Terra Nostra ~ Carlos Fuentes

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal. ~ Carlos Fuentes

What would it take for you to go out with me? ~ Simone Elkeles

Whatever I did lyrically or vocally, just to try and get better at everything. ~ Vic Fuentes

Did we come here to laugh or cry ? Are we dying or being born ? ~ Carlos Fuentes

Myth is a past with a future, exercising itself in the present. ~ Carlos Fuentes

And don't give me the same old story:
"We're in Mexico. Pray."
You'd be better off taking a snake rattle. ~ Carlos Fuentes

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me. ~ Carlos Fuentes

Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt. ~ Carlos Fuentes

I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is. ~ Daisy Fuentes

Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it. ~ Carlos Fuentes

Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists. ~ Carlos Fuentes

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

Scientific facts are few and far between, popular facts are commonplace and not usually facts at all. ~ Agustin Fuentes

In literature, you know only what you imagine ~ Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption. ~ Carlos Fuentes

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

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned. ~ Carlos Fuentes

In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity. ~ Carlos Fuentes

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

To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person. ~ Daisy Fuentes

The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment. ~ Carlos Fuentes

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down. ~ Carlos Fuentes

And just so you know for the future, I like my double-chocolate chip cookies warm and soft in the middle ... and without magnets glued to them."
"Me, too. When you decide to bake me some, let me know. ~ Simone Elkeles

Equal Vision seems to be doing really well. A lot of these major labels are just imploding and becoming indie labels, anyway. ~ Vic Fuentes

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century. ~ Carlos Fuentes

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die. ~ Carlos Fuentes

He thought that even naturalness can be feigned; at times, a mask disguises too well the expressions of a face that does not exist either outside or under it. ~ Carlos Fuentes

Work is what saves you. ~ Carlos Fuentes

Don't classify me, read me. ~ Carlos Fuentes

I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for. ~ Daisy Fuentes

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself. ~ Carlos Fuentes

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it. ~ Carlos Fuentes

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation. ~ Carlos Fuentes

He felt satisfied, and that sensation should have put him on his guard; happiness is a momentary trap that disguises stubborn problems and makes us feel more vulnerable than ever to the blind legitmacy of bad luck. ~ Carlos Fuentes

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

Nana always said the rain was Nature's way of adding sparkle to the outdoors. ~ Evangeline Duran Fuentes

Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature. ~ Carlos Fuentes

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. ~ Carlos Fuentes

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that. ~ Carlos Fuentes

I like fighting. I get into rows all the time. ~ Carlos Fuentes

I don't see anything wrong with telling someone that you are selfish with their love and that you can't stand sharing them with anyone else. ~ Vic Fuentes

Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better. ~ Vic Fuentes

I'm a writer, not a genre. ~ Carlos Fuentes

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. ~ Carlos Fuentes

But history does repeat itself; that is the comedy and the crime of history. Men learn nothing. Times change. Scenes change. Names change. But passions are the same. ~ Carlos Fuentes

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

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs. ~ Vic Fuentes

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. ~ Carlos Fuentes

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.' ~ Carlos Fuentes

All truth is double, and perhaps multiple; absolute reason is as dangerous as absolute faith; reason also has its madness ~ Carlos Fuentes

The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others. ~ Carlos Fuentes

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. ~ Carlos Fuentes

I loove the Backstreet Boys. ~ Daisy Fuentes

Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows. ~ Carlos Fuentes

Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency ~ Carlos Fuentes

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. ~ Carlos Fuentes

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive? ~ Carlos Fuentes

What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others. ~ Carlos Fuentes

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy. ~ Carlos Fuentes

Normality; show me normality, señor caballero, and I will show you an exception to the abnormal order of the universe; show me a normal event and I shall call it miraculous because it is normal. ~ Carlos Fuentes

You will seek a way to have thoughts, feeling that if you think you will have to remember. There will be things you do want to remember and others you would like, or that you will need, to forget. ~ Carlos Fuentes

Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents. ~ Daisy Fuentes

We get these really deep and emotional fan letters sometimes that are so heartbreaking or shocking or haunting sometimes that I can kind of relate to them in my own way and connect with our fans in that way. ~ Vic Fuentes

U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat. ~ Carlos Fuentes

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. ~ Carlos Fuentes

Without its changing shape or dimensions all of a lifetime's memories fit miraculously within it, perhaps revealing a mystery ... Memory was not something that overflowed or was shoehorned into the shape of an object; it was something that was distilled, transformed, with each new experience. ~ Carlos Fuentes

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. ~ Carlos Fuentes

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. ~ Carlos Fuentes

No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that. ~ Carlos Fuentes

What is the strongest pretext for loving? ... If it is necessary, our atomized consciousness invents love, imagines it or feigns it, but does not live without it, since in the midst of infinite dispersion, love, even if as a pretext , gives us the measure of our loss. ~ Carlos Fuentes

The logic of the symbol does not express the experiment; it is the experiment. Language is the phenomenon, and the observation of the phenomenon changes its nature. ~ Carlos Fuentes

I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV. ~ Daisy Fuentes

Did I ever tell you that Alex loves you so much he got your name tattooed all over his body? Hell, he even got your name branded into the back of his neck."
"They say 'LB,' Carlos. The initials for Latino Blood."
"No, no, no. You've got it all wrong. He wants everyone to think that, but in reality it means Lover of Brittany. LB, get it? ~ Simone Elkeles

The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes. ~ Carlos Fuentes

I think producers hate me because I will sing something 20, 30 times before I feel it. I always know when I hit it the way I want to, but it's really all in my head and no one else can understand it. ~ Vic Fuentes

I love to feel glamourous. I love to have other women feel glamourous. ~ Daisy Fuentes

You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship. ~ Daisy Fuentes

When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it. ~ Daisy Fuentes

Children are the purest manifestation of love and divinity in the world; they care, they are considerate and they know more about humanity than the smartest adult. We must protect, guide and allow the children of our world to flourish because they are the key to heal this broken planet. ~ Sam Fuentes

-You think I've got a big ego and an attitude problem?
-I don't think you do, Carlos. I know it. Unfortunately, it's a Fuentes flaw.
-I'd call it an asset. It's what makes us Fuentes brothers irresistible.
Carlos and Brittany ~ Simone Elkeles

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

I always have a picture in my head of what I want. I will literally do anything to make it happen. I will kill myself; I will run myself into the ground to make it happen how I want it to happen. ~ Vic Fuentes

Since in the world you imagines, a world without power and money, with no prohibitions, with no pain or death, each man would be God, and God therefore would not be possible. He would be a lie, because His attributes would be those of every man, woman and child: grace, immortality and supreme good. ~ Carlos Fuentes

When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible. ~ Vic Fuentes

Envy is resentment of good things that happen to other people. Jealousy increases the importance of the person we wish belonged only to us. Envy, as I told you, is poison, and futile - we want to be the other person. But jealousy is generous - we want the other person to be ours. ~ Carlos Fuentes

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. ~ Carlos Fuentes

The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought. ~ Carlos Fuentes

The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game ... is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood. ~ Carlos Fuentes

You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer to remember, there lying in the half-darkness of the bedroom, not what has happened already but what is going to happen. In your half-darkness your eyes would prefer to look ahead, not behind, and they do not know how to foresee the past. ~ Carlos Fuentes

...uncontrolled passions are like poison. Dormant, they are vices, they feed the soul, and the soul, deceived, or believing it is being nourished, is in fact being poisoned by its own unknown and unruly passion. Is it true, as other heretics, the Cathars, believed, that the best way to rid oneself of passion is to bring it into the open and indulge it, with no restraint of any kind? ~ Carlos Fuentes

For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history. ~ Carlos Fuentes