Quotes by peruvian authors

I studied law, economy, international relations, communications, in order to find what I would do. It's the hardest thing, being 17 and trying to find what to do in life. You've explored so little. I'm lucky: My parents let me explore. Mario Testino
Life Me You Law Parents International Relations Relations Would Find Studied Economy Trying The Hardest Thing Being Order Little Communications Explore Explored International Lucky Hardest Hardest Thing Thing
Even someone as photographed and aware of the camera as members of the royal family needs to feel completely comfortable if they are to look their best. Mario Testino
Best Needs Family Members Photographed Someone Feel Look Comfortable Camera Even Aware Royal Royal Family
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
I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given to people more or less affiliated with, let's say, socialist ideas, and that was not my case. Mario Vargas Llosa
People Win Say Case Given More More Or Less Absolutely Nobel Nobel Prize Ideas Affiliated Impression Prize Literature Convinced Less Socialist
I work very hard, you know, but I don't think that I'm working, because what I do pleases me so much. I write about certain things because certain things happen to me. Mario Vargas Llosa
Work Me You Think Pleases About Write Know Because Very Happen Much Certain Working Certain Things Hard Things Things Happen
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