Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

Since it is impossible to know what'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.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: peruvian
  • Birth: March 28, 1936

Topics

LifeLieImpossibleDreamIllusion

I'll be out having a good time and stick my gum on the side of my cup - I know, it's a horrible habit - and people will steal the cup.

Jenna Jameson

GoodTimeHabitHaving A Good Time

I never helped my kids. I was working too hard. My kids had to be responsible for themselves.

Maye Musk

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You don't wanna be around your family constantly.

John Oates

FamilyYouYourAroundConstantly

You can tailor garments all you want, but if it doesn't fit in the arms or legs, it never will.

Amar'e Stoudemire

YouWantWillLegsNeverTailor

The portal structure is simply a technique: it is neither necessary nor unnecessary, except as the writer and the story make it so. In the case of 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant,' it was absolutely necessary to my intentions.

Stephen R. Donaldson

StoryIntentionsStructureNecessary

A lot of television stuff is mean-spirited, and I think that's how political advertising got so mean-spirited, to where people are throwing things at the television set every time we have an election.

Stan Freberg

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If you want to write, just believe that you can, because it's about perseverance.

Tomi Adeyemi

PerseveranceBelieveYouWantWrite

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

Tony Blair

ChangePoliticsPartyCountryCome

It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.

Robin Gibb

ThinkingBetterFeelEveryoneOut

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

Rod Taylor

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Games and training are completely different.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

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I started accessible GPS research in 1994 and the first version became available on a laptop in 2000.

Mike May

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