"I think in a country like mine, violence……" — Mario Vargas Llosa
"I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations."
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38 Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
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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…
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This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an…
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No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian…
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The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close…
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