"Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it……" — Mario Vargas Llosa
"Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present."
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38 Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa has 38 quotes on this site.
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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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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…
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More Alters Quotes
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one of 108 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
— William Blake
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The eye altering, alters all.
— William Blake
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things…
— James Allen
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The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my…
— Oswald Chambers
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
— Claude Monet
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Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our…
— Drake
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Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or…
— Gerald Brenan
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Every action alters the soul of the doer.
— Oswald Spengler
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If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental…
— Unknown Author
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position…
— Joan Didion
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Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for…
— Anna Funder
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Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess…
— Barry Lopez
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