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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cheap, sentimental things — Edith Grossman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nostalgia is cowardice — Mario Vargas-Llosa