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More Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
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.
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.
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.
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.
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
He felt immense tenderness for her. He was sure that he would always love her, for my happiness and also my misfortune.
I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
