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Mario Vargas Llosa has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
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You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what…
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This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create…
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It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
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Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these…
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I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.
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The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating…
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Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life
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Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant…
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The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and…
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I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.
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No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because,…
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In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think,…
— Graydon Carter
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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Guys, I don't want to tell you half-truths, unless they're completely accurate.
— Alain Vigneault
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In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other…
— Khalil Gibran
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We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
— Eric Hoffer
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If people depend on me to be a man of truth, I have to prove again and again and again and again…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but…
— Erwin Chargaff
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
— Langston Hughes
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A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
— Solon
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Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off…
— Thomas Jefferson
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