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\u201cWhen your life is half over, I think you have to see the face of death in order to start writing seriously. There are people who see the end quickly, like Rimbaud. When you start seeing it, you feel you have to rescue these things. Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Carlos Fuentes, The Art of Fiction No. 68<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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