In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.
One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser. - Mario Vargas Llosa
One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
- Mario Vargas Llosa
Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our … - Mario Vargas Llosa
Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our …
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons. - Mario Vargas Llosa
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike t… - Mario Vargas Llosa
No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike t…
We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts. - Mario Vargas Llosa
We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.
I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness. - Mario Vargas Llosa
I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.
You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like … - Mario Vargas Llosa
You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like …
Violence represents the worst kind of conformism. - Mario Vargas Llosa
Violence represents the worst kind of conformism.
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 l… - Mario Vargas Llosa
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 l…
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