{"author":"Carlos Fuentes","author_id":"Carlos+Fuentes","total_quotes":28,"quotes":[{"text":"I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.","author":"Carlos Fuentes","tags":["life","i am","want "],"id":4776,"author_id":"Carlos+Fuentes"},{"text":"Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.","author":"Carlos Fuentes","tags":["america","black","colonies "],"id":9611,"author_id":"Carlos+Fuentes"},{"text":"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.","author":"Carlos Fuentes","tags":["freedom","narrative","story"],"id":16452,"author_id":"Carlos+Fuentes"},{"text":"Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention.","author":"Carlos Fuentes","tags":["affection","attention","respect"],"id":18599,"author_id":"Carlos+Fuentes"},{"text":"Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.","author":"Carlos Fuentes","tags":["culture"],"id":29291,"author_id":"Carlos+Fuentes"},{"text":"She begins to feel that the reality show is the university she never attended. Vicarious reality. Emotion without a value-added tax. Movement without danger. Alma finds her reality. She no longer has a reason to put herself at risk and go out into the hostile, degrading world.","author":"Carlos Fuentes","tags":["emotion","reality-tv","safety"],"id":49406,"author_id":"Carlos+Fuentes"},{"text":"Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.","author":"Carlos Fuentes","tags":["diversity","immigration","refugees"],"id":90224,"author_id":"Carlos+Fuentes"},{"text":"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.","author":"Carlos Fuentes","tags":["life","experience "],"id":94056,"author_id":"Carlos+Fuentes"},{"text":"Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.","author":"Carlos Fuentes","tags":["language","literature"],"id":102260,"author_id":"Carlos+Fuentes"},{"text":"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.","author":"Carlos Fuentes","tags":["imagination","novel","story","truth"],"id":104855,"author_id":"Carlos+Fuentes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}