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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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The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your…
— Fernand Leger
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If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.
— Minoru Yamasaki
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I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants.…
— Betty Smith
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The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am…
— Sylvia Plath
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I'm kind sweet and good hearted all I see is white walls and a girl who's dieing too find a happy place…
— Courtney Hood
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The spring over there takes you by the throat, the flowersblooming by the thousands over white walls. If you strolled around for…
— Albert Camus
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