“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.”
(carlos fuentes, "myself with others: selected essays"
“Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention.”
(carlos fuentes, "todas las familias felices")
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"Poor the unhappiness out / from your too bitter heart". (Wallace Stevens)