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Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes
"I will write for a few more years to see if I can beat this. Literature gives the reader a second chance at life. Life is writing. The most difficult thing for a political leader is getting intelligent people to do stupid things. When you believe in a cause, nothing is impossible."
"Art is an escape from reality."
"I don't believe there is a powerful and mysterious 'popular will', a common will that expresses itself inexorably in spite of repression."
"A writer's job is to give testimony, to bear witness to an age and the legacies of those who inhabit it."
"Writing is a struggle against silence."
"Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present. "
"A novel which does not give the utmost satisfaction to its author is an immoral novel"
"Since it is impossible to eliminate wars the most important thing is to disarm them"
"The world is full of contradictions. We can only confront them if we can face up to them"
"Literature is fire"
