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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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Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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We must hide our unholiness in the wounds of Christ as Moses hid himself in the cleft of the rock while the…
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The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he…
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How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? How sure…
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We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain…
— Abraham Maslow
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To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
— Publilius Syrus
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We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in…
— Vijay Prashad
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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…
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
— Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
— Okakura Kakuzo
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Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take…
— Jonathan Franzen
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In any moment, no matter how lost we feel, we can take refuge in presence and love. We need only pause, breathe,…
— Tara Brach
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