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More Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
Reading is protesting against the insufficiencies of life.
One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...
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.
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.
Lies crushed day and night become truths.
It is easier to imagine the death of one person than that of a hundred or a thousand... Multiplied, suffering becomes abstract. It is not easy to be moved by abstract things.
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.
Although they say that only idiots are happy, I confess that I felt happy.
