{"id":671,"date":"2022-02-08T01:15:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T01:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/?p=671"},"modified":"2022-10-15T19:57:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T19:57:33","slug":"mario-vargas-llosa-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/mario-vargas-llosa-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/vergasnew.jpg\" alt=\"Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/vergasnew.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/vergasnew-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America&#8217;s most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature &#8220;for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual&#8217;s resistance, revolt, and defeat&#8221;.<br \/>\n(1936 &#8211; )<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8211; Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You cannot teach creativity &#8211; 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.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>~ Mario Vargas Llosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since it is impossible to know what&#8217;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.<\/strong><strong>~ Mario Vargas Llosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are killed because you are a writer, that&#8217;s the maximum expression of respect, you know.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>~ Mario Vargas Llosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>~ Mario Vargas Llosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>~ Mario Vargas Llosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It isn&#8217;t true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>~ Mario Vargas Llosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>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.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>~ Mario Vargas Llosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>~ Mario Vargas Llosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prosperity or egalitarianism &#8211; you have to choose. I favor freedom &#8211; you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>~ Mario Vargas Llosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It is easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>~ Mario Vargas Llosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When you start having bad luck, there isn&#8217;t an end to it.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>~ Mario Vargas Llosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading changed dreams into life and life into dreams.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>~ Mario Vargas Llosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A clean conscience might help you to get into heaven. but it won&#8217;t help your career.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>~ Mario Vargas Llosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>~ Mario Vargas Llosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Every thing is done halfway in Peru, and that is why everything goes wrong.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>~ Mario Vargas Llosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>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.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>~ Mario Vargas Llosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We all believe in the regulations, but you have to know how to interpret them. &#8212; you can&#8217;t make facts fit the rules, It is the other way round. The rules have to be adopted to fit the facts.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>~ Mario Vargas Llosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America&#8217;s most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature &#8220;for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual&#8217;s resistance, revolt, and defeat&#8221;. 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