Mario Vargas Llosa - The Time of the Hero (1962)

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

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He is always furious, on account of what he finds out or what he doesn't find out.

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Lima frightened him, it was too big, you could lose yourself in it and never find your way home; the people on the street were total strangers.

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Every thing is done halfway in Peru, and that is why everything goes wrong.

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It is easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.

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We all believe in the regulations, but you have to know how to interpret them.

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You can't make facts fit the rules, it is the other way round. The rules have to be adopted to fit the facts.

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