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More Quotes by 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.
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
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.
Reading is protesting against the insufficiencies of life.
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...
Although they say that only idiots are happy, I confess that I felt happy.
Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.
Lies crushed day and night become truths.
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.
