Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

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I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.

Mario Vargas Llosa
Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife.

Mario Vargas Llosa
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

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I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of the plot. I write without thinking much, trying to overcome all kinds of self-criticism, without stopping, without giving any consideration to the style or structure of the novel, only putting down on paper everything that can be used as raw material, very crude material for later development in the story.

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When you start having bad luck, there isn't an end to it.

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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.

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Literature creates a fraternity within human diversity and eclipses the frontiers erected among men and women by ignorance, ideologies, religions, languages, and stupidity.

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A clean conscience might help you to get into heaven. but it won't help your career.

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Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

Mario Vargas Llosa