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I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 28
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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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I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.
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The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.
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One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
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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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We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.
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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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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.
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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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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 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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Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
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It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.
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Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it
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Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.
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