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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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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.
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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.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, 'My bombs are my books.'
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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.
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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I have no literary fears.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
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The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.
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My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
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The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
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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.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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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.