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Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

«If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.»
«Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.»
«Prosperity or egalitarianism / you have to choose. I favor freedom / you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.»
«Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.»
«It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.»
«There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.»
«Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.»
«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.»
«Feast of the Goat. It has been like a huge birthday present that this film based on one of my novels, one of the novels I worked hardest on to write, is released on the day of my birthday.»
«What is happening in the country for such political, moral and cultural blindness to take hold? Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at play in these elections.»