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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 human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.

Mario Vargas Llosa

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Mario Vargas Llosa
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 28
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We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment, but a way to act.
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Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.
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North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.
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A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.
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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 to be.
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I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
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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.
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It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.
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I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.
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Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?
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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.
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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.
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One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
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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.
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I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.
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I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.
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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.
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If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
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A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be
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It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
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