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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."

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: "Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life."

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.




Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)"

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration."

The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.




Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "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."

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.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it"

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "Writers are the exorcists of their own demons."

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.




Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser."

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing."

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.



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."

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: "When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon."

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings."

I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.




Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his."

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity."

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty."

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections."

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "Violence represents the worst kind of conformism."

Violence represents the worst kind of conformism.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work."

A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.



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."

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: "We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts."

We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "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."

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 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."

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: "Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?"

Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around."

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "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."

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.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know."

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern."

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.



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."

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: "A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be"

A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that."

I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores."

I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit."

There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.



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."

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: "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."

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: "It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator."

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness."

I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters."

In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!"

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate."

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature."

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations."

I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world."

I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society."

North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time."

Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal."

We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories."

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "It is as if Little Red Riding Hood had asked the wolf: "Dear Grandmother, what is the truth for?" And the wolf had replied: "The truth helps me tell you better lies."

It is as if Little Red Riding Hood had asked the wolf: "Dear Grandmother, what is the truth for?" And the wolf had replied: "The truth helps me tell you better lies.



Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: "Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings."

Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.