Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don't believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Women think the people that I play are smoldering and dangerous. I look in the mirror, and I go, 'I don't get it.'

Jimmy Smits

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I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

Jim Carrey

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I don't really care about the friendships on the court. I got my friends. I got my family, which I'm close to. I got a couple of friends that I'm always around.

Joel Embiid

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I was alone more than most kids.

Max Minghella

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Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

John Lydon

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I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.

John Wells

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I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.

Amy Adams

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Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.

Tony Abbott

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My job has usually been to get on base so others can drive me in.

Rod Carew

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It's amazing what we can get away with and what we can't. But it's not for me to decide.

Mike Judge

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Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.

Michel Onfray

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I don't know why - I have a ton of books: five full cabinets of them.

Michael Pena

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