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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
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
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
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
AsVargas Llosa has said, "Democracy is an event that provokes yawns in the countries in which rule of law exists."49 — Pope Benedict XVI
There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
— 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
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.
— 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
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
— 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
