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Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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Mario Vargas Llosa
novelist, dramaturge, politician, journalist, essayist, literary critic, screenwriter, university teacher, prose writer, playwright, philosopher, opinion journalist, writer, film director, broadcaster
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1936 – 2025
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
All Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Political correctness is the enemy of freedom because it rejects honesty and authenticity. We have to tackle it as the distortion of the truth.
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It is easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.
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Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
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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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He is always furious, on account of what he finds out or what he doesn't find out.
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Every thing is done halfway in Peru, and that is why everything goes wrong.
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When you start having bad luck, there isn't an end to 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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A clean conscience might help you to get into heaven. but it won't help your career.
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Reading changed dreams into life and life into dreams.
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Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute – the foundation of the human condition – and should be better. We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.
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Good literature erects bridges between different peoples, and by having us enjoy, suffer, or feel surprise, unites us beneath the languages, beliefs, habits, customs, and prejudices that separate us.
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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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