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Weve included features that werent in the original proposal, ... Our concentration before was on the Rio Grande levees. Now were focusing on the floodway levees too.


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CARLOS GHOSN My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
CARLOS FUENTES I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
CARLOS FUENTES One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on...
CARLOS FUENTES I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the write...
CARLOS FUENTES Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
CARLOS FUENTES Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was al...
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.
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