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Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

A clean conscience might help you to get into heaven. But it won’t help your career Picture Quote #1

No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible Picture Quote #1

This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at the same time I needed some distance, some perspective on this experience in order to feel free enough to manipulate it and to transform it into fiction. If the experience is very close, I feel inhibited. I have never been able to write fiction about something that has happened to me recently. If the closeness of the real reality, of living reality, is to have a persuasive effect on my imagination, I need a distance, a distance in time and in space Picture Quote #1

If you are killed because you are a writer, that’s the maximum expression of respect, you know Picture Quote #1

It isn’t true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present Picture Quote #1

That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it Picture Quote #1

The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished, if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life Picture Quote #1

Death isn’t enough. It doesn’t remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man’s face is as sacred as his mother or his wife Picture Quote #1

I convinced her that her first loyalty isn’t to other people, but to her own feelings Picture Quote #1

He is always furious, on account of what he finds out or what he doesn’t find out Picture Quote #1

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I write because I’m unhappy. I write because it’s a way of fighting unhappiness Picture Quote #1

The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating romantic love from your life, which is the love that makes you suffer. That way, I assure you, you live with greater tranquility and enjoy things more Picture Quote #1

Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves Picture Quote #1

The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration Picture Quote #1

I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations Picture Quote #1

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Lima frightened him, it was too big, you could lose yourself in it and never find you way home; the people on the street were total strangers Picture Quote #1

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A clean conscience might help you to get into heaven. But it won’t help your career (Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes) No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible (Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes) This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at the same time I needed some distance, some perspective on this experience in order to feel free enough to manipulate it and to transform it into fiction. If the experience is very close, I feel inhibited. I have never been able to write fiction about something that has happened to me recently. If the closeness of the real reality, of living reality, is to have a persuasive effect on my imagination, I need a distance, a distance in time and in space (Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes) If you are killed because you are a writer, that’s the maximum expression of respect, you know (Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes) It isn’t true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around (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 (Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes) Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present (Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes) That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it (Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes) The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished, if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life (Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes) Death isn’t enough. It doesn’t remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man’s face is as sacred as his mother or his wife (Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes) I convinced her that her first loyalty isn’t to other people, but to her own feelings (Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes) He is always furious, on account of what he finds out or what he doesn’t find out (Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes) I write because I’m unhappy. I write because it’s a way of fighting unhappiness (Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes) The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating romantic love from your life, which is the love that makes you suffer. That way, I assure you, you live with greater tranquility and enjoy things more (Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes) Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves (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 (Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes) I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations (Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes) Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion (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 (Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes) Lima frightened him, it was too big, you could lose yourself in it and never find you way home; the people on the street were total strangers (Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes)

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