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Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.

I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.

We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: I know what a man feels close to the woman he loves, but he's affraid to do anything

I know what a man feels close to the woman he loves, but he's affraid to do anything

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.

The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: As everybody in the Andes knows, when the devil comes to work his evil on earth he sometimes takes the shape of a limping gringo stranger. And

As everybody in the Andes knows, when the devil comes to work his evil on earth he sometimes takes the shape of a limping gringo stranger. And

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.

But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties ... broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness.

He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties ... broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.

I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella.(spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella.
(spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: It's beautiful, as long as you concentrate on the landscape and the birds, because everything man-made there is ugly.

It's beautiful, as long as you concentrate on the landscape and the birds, because everything man-made there is ugly.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: The real truth is one thing, and the literary truth is another; and there is nothing more difficult than to want both truths to coincide.

The real truth is one thing, and the literary truth is another; and there is nothing more difficult than to want both truths to coincide.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.

A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

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

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.

I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Because in the civilization of the spectacle, intellectuals are of interest only if they play the fashion game and become clowns.

Because in the civilization of the spectacle, intellectuals are of interest only if they play the fashion game and become clowns.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.

Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: There were so many problems; the hydra had so many heads, iniquity raised its head everywhere one looked.

There were so many problems; the hydra had so many heads, iniquity raised its head everywhere one looked.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: it wouldn't surprise me if in a little while they begin to worship Leopold the Second the way they worship their fetishes and hideous objects." Where

it wouldn't surprise me if in a little while they begin to worship Leopold the Second the way they worship their fetishes and hideous objects." Where

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: When you start looking for purity in politics, you eventually get to unreality.

When you start looking for purity in politics, you eventually get to unreality.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.

North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

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

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: In matters concerning God, you have to believe, not reason," Herbert would say. "If you reason, God vanishes like a mouthful of smoke." Roger

In matters concerning God, you have to believe, not reason," Herbert would say. "If you reason, God vanishes like a mouthful of smoke." Roger

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil.

Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.

In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life

Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?

Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: The houses are ugly, imitations of imitations.

The houses are ugly, imitations of imitations.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Violence represents the worst kind of conformism.

Violence represents the worst kind of conformism.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: his eyes, he thought that in a few hours he, Lucrecia, and Fonchito would be crossing the skies, leaving behind the thick clouds

his eyes, he thought that in a few hours he, Lucrecia, and Fonchito would be crossing the skies, leaving behind the thick clouds

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: A writer is not always conscious of the influences he has received.

A writer is not always conscious of the influences he has received.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Until then he had believed they justified colonialism: Christianity, civilization, and commerce.

Until then he had believed they justified colonialism: Christianity, civilization, and commerce.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.

There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

Writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: A Criminal is the case of surplus of human energy directed in the wrong direction.

A Criminal is the case of surplus of human energy directed in the wrong direction.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Because happiness was temporal, individual, in exceptional circumstances twofold, on extremely rare occasions tripartite, and never collective, civic.

Because happiness was temporal, individual, in exceptional circumstances twofold, on extremely rare occasions tripartite, and never collective, civic.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be

A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Probably there are no longer any societies in which the best people are attracted to civic duties.

Probably there are no longer any societies in which the best people are attracted to civic duties.

Mario Vargas-Llosa quotes: Nostalgia is cowardice

Nostalgia is cowardice