More Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
Don't ask me why, because I'm not even going to tell you dead. I'm never going to tell you that I love you even if she loves you.
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
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.
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.
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.
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.
I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
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.
When I thought I was going to lose my mind in the face of so much suffering. This is how I discovered that a human being cannot live without believing.
