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It's not my job to worry about how Left, Right will react to something. My job is, am I creating something that connects people? That's my job.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
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 am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.
— Chavela Vargas
I'm sure the president doesn't enjoy being called deporter-in-chief.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
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
When people call me illegal, calling me illegal says more about you than it does about me.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
And I try sweeping it all one side
— Yesenia Vargas
I have no control whatsoever on how people perceive me from the Right or the Left. All I have control over is who I say I am.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
As a gay man, I think the role of culture is central to how you change politics - culture is politics.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
My being gay is not a social issue; it's a fact. It's not something to be debated. It's a reality.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
I'm a gay, undocumented immigrant; I have to be optimistic.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
Fiction is a lie covering up a deep truth.
— Maria 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
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
When you like something, you should do it all night long.
— Chavela Vargas
You know, guys, it is possible for two women to work together and get along.
— Elizabeth Vargas
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
I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.
— Chavela Vargas
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
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
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
For now, for this year, I need to be a good mother.
— Elizabeth Vargas
There were so many problems; the hydra had so many heads, iniquity raised its head everywhere one looked.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
When you start looking for purity in politics, you eventually get to unreality.
— 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
I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
Because happiness was temporal, individual, in exceptional circumstances twofold, on extremely rare occasions tripartite, and never collective, civic.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
A Criminal is the case of surplus of human energy directed in the wrong direction.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
And that was when I knew. I had to kill him.
— Kitty Thomas
Writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
You never quite know where your emotions will take you.
— Jacob Vargas
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
I've always really wanted to make a film on what it means to be white in a country that's getting less and less white.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
Life can be amazing, so there's no reason to check out early.
— Kimberly Vargas
North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
I think everyone deserves dignity.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
If the Devil is real, then God must be real, too.
— Jacob Vargas
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
I believe fundamentally in the kindness of the American people because I have been a beneficiary of it.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
Nostalgia is cowardice
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
Film in many ways is very literal.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
Probably there are no longer any societies in which the best people are attracted to civic duties.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
I try to take the pain and find a way to use it in my work; I find that it makes the work deeper.
— Jacob Vargas
Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.
— Elizabeth Vargas
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
You are not responsible for everyone's happiness.
— Jacob Vargas
I look at emotional pain as something we need to go through in order to grow and learn.
— Jacob Vargas
I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.
— Elizabeth Vargas
Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it
— 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
Just be kind to each other. That's it.
— Jacob Vargas
Undocumented people get arrested all the time. I get arrested, and it's front-page news. I feel guilt.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague.
— Chavela Vargas
Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
Left-leaning bloggers have had a tremendous impact on the Democratic Party.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
I don't think there's any other issue out there that young people are more passionate, and more ahead in, than global warming.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
I'm not just anybody.' 'No, indeed. Nobody is.
— Fred Vargas
People always think that they'll never break. They'll never give in, CIA operatives somehow crack, but not them
— Kitty Thomas
I am not the 'illegal' you think I am, and immigration is not what you think it is,
— Jose Antonio Vargas
Frida Kahlo taught me a lot without ever bragging about anything.
— Chavela Vargas
I consider myself a student of life.
— Jacob Vargas
It's estimated that one million girls in India 'disappear' every year.
— Elizabeth Vargas
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
When it comes to mountains there are two kinds of people; those who walk half way up & quit & those who conquer it which one are you?
— Ricardo Viana Vargas
Until then he had believed they justified colonialism: Christianity, civilization, and commerce.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
I want to be as creatively disruptive as possible. I want to be radically transparent in a way that isn't showboating.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
If You find yourself in a hole; stop digging.
— Sharon Cooke Vargas
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
I have no control over what people call me. The only thing I have control over is my work, and that's really all I can be judged on.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
A writer is not always conscious of the influences he has received.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
I am not a pregnant working mother wronged.
— Elizabeth Vargas
On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
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
Vargas isn't supposed to be faithful to a woman he hasn't slept with! Vargas only wants to sleep with Dr. Gomez, Lupe.
— John Irving
Cheap, sentimental things
— Edith Grossman
Fernando Vargas may have had a 6-pack in his stomach, but he didn't have a six-pack on his chin.
— Larry Merchant
I like Q&A's better than articles sometimes because I feel like I'd rather hear somebody actually talk or wrestle with ...
— Jose Antonio Vargas
Violence represents the worst kind of conformism.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
The houses are ugly, imitations of imitations.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa