Fiction Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa

“Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.” quote by Mario Vargas Llosa — Download Open image

““Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.””

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I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for…

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Nothing better protects a human being against the stupidity of prejudice, racism, religious or political sectarianism, and exclusivist nationalism than this truth that invariably…

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I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.

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Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as…

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The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished,…

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The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to…

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That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial…

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Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

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I think if you're impregnated with good literature, with good culture, you're much more difficult to manipulate, and you're much more aware of the…

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Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to…

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Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity…

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“O comes o te comen, no hay más remedio.”

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