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It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!


William Carlos Williams

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CARLOS GHOSN You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opin...
CARLOS GHOSN If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you...
CARLOS GHOSN Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
CARLOS GHOSN Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
CARLOS GHOSN The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
CARLOS GHOSN I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obv...
CARLOS GHOSN Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvem...
CARLOS GHOSN You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.
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.
CARLOS FUENTES The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for ...
CARLOS FUENTES I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
CARLOS FUENTES Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who...
CARLOS FUENTES Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000...
CARLOS FUENTES The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest fo...
CARLOS FUENTES Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and...
CARLOS FUENTES What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what...
CARLOS FUENTES The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the blac...
CARLOS FUENTES I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
CARLOS FUENTES To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a dif...
CARLOS CASTANEDA Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
CARLOS CASTANEDA The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
CARLOS CASTANEDA A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and lau...
CARLOS CASTANEDA We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe...
CARLOS CASTANEDA The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historica...
CARLOS CASTANEDA We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
CARLOS CASTANEDA Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this pat...
CARLOS CASTANEDA In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps ba...
CARLOS ALVAREZ Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989.
CARLOS ALVAREZ In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer b...
CARLOS ALVAREZ If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's ...
CARLOS ALAZRAQUI I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.
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