Quotes by peruvian authors

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities. Mario Testino
You Words Opportunities Doors Think Possibilities Favourite Open Curiosity Curious The Doors Then Create
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
When you're nice, people like you and will want to work with you. But it can mean that they take you for granted. Mario Testino
Work You People Will Nice Take Like Want Mean Granted Nice People
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
We have shown, given these last three years, that we were succeeding in fighting terrorists. While during the first 30 years of the former governments they didn't. Alberto Fujimori
Three First Fighting Given Terrorists Were Years Governments While Former Succeeding Shown Last
And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people. Alberto Fujimori
People Some People Three Some Factories Counter Part Also False Campaign Banks Japanese Million Two Panama
I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process. Alberto Fujimori
Law Election Will Community Framework Results Understand Expect Done After Process Which International International Community
Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before. Alberto Fujimori
Terrorism World Before Fighting Alive Case Feasible Terrorist Isolated Which Against Mean Showing Groups Now Two
Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence. Alberto Fujimori
Poverty Imply Necessarily Violence
The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable. Alberto Fujimori
Terrorism Liberation Those Unacceptable Commit Who
What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy. Alberto Fujimori
Democracy Progressing Our Fact Recovering Recovery Doing In Fact Sustaining
Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language. Daniel Alarcon
Life People Language Country Half Everything Abandon Willing Would Emigrate Given More Uncertainty Know Another Foreign Foreign Land Than Where Land Peru Population Chance
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English. Daniel Alarcon
Writing Think Latin Latin America Latin American About Write Writer America American Happens English Who
I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column. Daniel Alarcon
Think Way Papers Worst Would Find Could Write Column Columns Stuff Like Most Been Blogs Die Often Ephemeral Asked Really Peru Hard Thing
I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic. Daniel Alarcon
Discipline Sit Down Think About Structure More Write Does How Impose Intellectual Linguistic Sentences Really Certain Hard Mapping
It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art. Daniel Alarcon
Art People Live True Idea Making Opposed Artist Being Who
I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you. Daniel Alarcon
Love You Fall Take Never Like Know Because Affair Love Affair Going Just Where Novel Keep Keep Going
I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece. Daniel Alarcon
You Three Finished Interview Later Days Like Piece Because Then Radio
At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say. Daniel Alarcon
Say Something Writers Most Who Basic Level Appreciate
When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting. Daniel Alarcon
Music Song Language Lyrics Background Distracting Find Clash Able Voices Write Head Between Days Instrumental Understand Very Just Younger Even Playing
I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make. Daniel Alarcon
Work Music Band Says About Take Name Named Underdogs Make Los Lot Any Famous After Literature Who Sucker Novel
When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated. Daniel Alarcon
Writing School Language Seriously High High School Had Sophisticated Particularly Domestic Literary Spanish English Disposal Started
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