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

- Carlos Fuentes
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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

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

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

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.

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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