Carlos Fuentes Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Past, Variation, Novelty

• 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

  Lying, Eye, Past

• The Mexican revolution was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Past, Mexican, Black

  "Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his country's future". Interview with Anne-Marie O'Connor, articles.latimes.com. April 26, 2006.

• Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Book, Past, Years

• Most writers in Mexico have had posts as ambassadors, secretaries - that is no longer the case. Now a writer can live off writing. He has an audience: there are publishing houses, there are newspapers - so the situation is not as terrible as it used to be when there were no means and he had to go into government service, be an ambassador or a cabinet minister, etc. So, things are changing in the sense that the civil society is now the protagonist. The writer therefore occupies a different position, but no less influential than in the past, in a new, democratic society.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Writing, Mean, Past

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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