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Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 28
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Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.
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I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think in the end this kind of activity absorbs one in such a way that it becomes one's way of life.
Mario Vargas Llosa
We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.
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Even though what I enjoy most is literature, I would not want to live only in a world of fiction, cut off from the rest of life. No - I want to always have a foot in the street, to be inmersed in the activities of my contemporaries, in the times, in the place where I live.
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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
A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.
Mario Vargas Llosa
One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
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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
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.
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I couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in other things, of course - I am interested in many things. But the center, the crux, is always literature.
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I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.
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 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
When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.
Mario Vargas Llosa
A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be
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
I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano's class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space.
Mario Vargas Llosa
There are people with a lot of prejudice, a lot of fear of the unknown. They think that immigration is a danger, when really it is a solution. This is an interesting issue, because it will be a central question of our time.
Mario Vargas Llosa
If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
Mario Vargas Llosa
I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.
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