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Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian Writer
Born: Mar 28, 1936
Because Life Me Think World You
Related authors: Ayn Rand Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Niccolo Machiavelli Thomas Mann Thomas Paine Voltaire
To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution. Mario Vargas Llosa
Life Art You Yourself Revenge Result Achieve Problems Totalitarianism Hell Society Way Relief Write Writer Attempt Catastrophe Bound Saints Persecution Any Repression Want Achieves Which Social Utopia
My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human mind, destroy principles and values, and transform people into little monsters. Mario Vargas Llosa
Politics People Political Political Power Mind Values Three Power Monsters Way Destroy About Principles Years Very Human Transform Which Little Human Mind Appetite
Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections. Mario Vargas Llosa
Democracy Dictatorship Maintain Go Stake Elections
Today, everybody is more or less conscious of the total failure of the Cuban revolution to produce wealth, to produce a better standard of living for the Cubans. With the exception of small radical parties, Latin Americans know that it's a brutal dictatorship and the longest in Latin American history. Mario Vargas Llosa
Today Failure History Wealth Better Dictatorship Revolution Radical Living Everybody Latin Latin American Total More Small More Or Less Brutal Exception Longest Know Parties Cuban American American History Produce Standard Less Conscious
I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision. Mario Vargas Llosa
Life Love My Life Pretense Concentrated Principally Scientific Precision Love Stories Stories
In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters. Mario Vargas Llosa
Freedom Invention Think Characters General Limited Historical Use
If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be more or less informed about what's going on. Mario Vargas Llosa
You Free Country Nothing Live Way About More Only More Or Less Becomes Going Often Where Information Literature Informed Less Comparable
Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires. Mario Vargas Llosa
Good Power Inevitable Those Read Limitation Always Up Human Ends Literature Fulfill Aspirations Who Showing Desires
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
Me Own Enough Statement Pleasure Says Moral Individual Because Sovereignty Justification
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
Good You Creativity Become Young Kind Would Writer He Good Writer Like Himself Within How Discover Cannot Teach Help
When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in particular the lost generation - Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos - especially Faulkner. Of the authors I read when I was young, he is one of the few who still means a lot to me. Mario Vargas Llosa
Me Generation Lost Few Young Faulkner He Particular Read Reader Still Passionate Lot Fitzgerald American Authors Means Who Sartre Hemingway Novelists
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. Mario Vargas Llosa
Work Living Other Books Way Outside Crux Course Always Am Any Any Other Way Center Not Interested Literature Which Interested Mean Many Things Imagine
When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course, of his cruelty, corruption, extravagance, and theatricalities. Mario Vargas Llosa
Corruption Cruelty Extravagance Latin Latin America Course Because His Dictators America Fifties Full Figure University
I am not going to participate in professional politics again. Mario Vargas Llosa
Politics Participate Am Going Again Professional
Iraq is better without Saddam Hussein than with Saddam Hussein. Without a doubt. Mario Vargas Llosa
Better Doubt Hussein Saddam Saddam Hussein Without Iraq Than
I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated. Mario Vargas Llosa
Free Important Think Independent Critical Citizens Effect Cannot Literature Manipulated Creating Who
I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for a while. Mario Vargas Llosa
Great Become Live Think Other Everybody Great Majority Majority Identity Least Human Different Human Beings While Aspiration Beings
Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't produce changes, but I think the social and political effect of literature is much less controllable than I thought. Mario Vargas Llosa
History You Political Thought Think Changes Could Said Were Effect Than Literature Social Produce Much Less Wars Sartre Now Acts
I think if you're impregnated with good literature, with good culture, you're much more difficult to manipulate, and you're much more aware of the dangers that powers represent. Mario Vargas Llosa
Good You Culture Difficult Think Dangers More Powers Represent Literature Manipulate Much Aware
In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history. Mario Vargas Llosa
History You Reality Invent Facts Without Limited Real Essence Being Fiction Manipulate Disloyal
The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give interviews, to go to book fairs. Mario Vargas Llosa
You Book Pressure Year Interviews Give Week Nobel Nobel Prize Fairytale Go Prize Imagine Nightmare
Part of the reasons I have lived the life I have is because I wanted to have an adventurous life. But my best adventures are more literary than political. Mario Vargas Llosa
Life Best Political More Part Adventures Adventurous Because Than Wanted Literary Reasons Lived
What is essential in love is what the French call 'amour fou.' What is that in English? Crazy love? That doesn't sound as beautiful. It's a total kind of love that not only embraces feelings, actions, but a kind of understanding of the world from the perspective of love. Mario Vargas Llosa
Love Beautiful Crazy Love Is World Perspective Feelings Understanding Kind Embraces Total Only French Call Sound Essential English Actions
I would like my novels to be read the way I read the novels I love. Mario Vargas Llosa
Love Way Would Like Read Novels
Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to fantasize and to invent. Mario Vargas Llosa
Time Me Book Invent Has-Been Facts Study Adventure Period Also Document Been Fantasize Certain Dedicated Each Traveling
In general, a writer would like to think that the best book that he has written is the book that he is writing, and the next book will be even better. Maybe if this is not true, it is very useful to keep the illusion alive. Mario Vargas Llosa
Best Book Writing Better Illusion Will Think Alive Would General Writer He Written True Like Very Maybe Next Useful Even Keep
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