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More Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
Reading is protesting against the insufficiencies of life.
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.
In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.
One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
Lies crushed day and night become truths.
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.
