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They say it was the career of a priest, ... But I don't regret having spent so much time dedicated to studying the visual arts.


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SANTANA MOSS Be respectful and understand where you're at.
ERVIN SANTANA I'm happy anyway because wherever they put me, I'll pitch and do my job.
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ERVIN SANTANA I was in big trouble, one out, men on first and third. I just wanted to get a ground ball.
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CARLOS FUENTES I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
CARLOS FUENTES I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like t...
CARLOS FUENTES I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty...
CARLOS FUENTES The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic na...
CARLOS FUENTES What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human righ...
CARLOS FUENTES You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to dea...
CARLOS FUENTES I love having critics for breakfast.
CARLOS FUENTES The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
CARLOS FUENTES The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for ...
CARLOS FUENTES I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
CARLOS FUENTES Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who...
CARLOS FUENTES Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000...
CARLOS FUENTES The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest fo...
CARLOS FUENTES Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and...
CARLOS FUENTES What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what...
CARLOS FUENTES The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the blac...
CARLOS FUENTES I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
CARLOS FUENTES To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a dif...
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