Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in particular the lost generation - Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos - especially Faulkner. Of the authors I read when I was young, he is one of the few who still means a lot to me.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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You can't all of a sudden go to sleep one night and wake up Martha Stewart. It's bit by bit by bit.

Jen Lancaster

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To be involved in a senior tournament back in the States is very satisfying.

John McEnroe

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I gotta say, as the father of two beautiful young daughters, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Steve Schirripa

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You can't trick The Universe - it's like Santa Claus that way.

Tracy McMillan

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I have these habits. I'm not a crazy artist. Or am I?

Ron Carlson

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Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

Martin Scorsese

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The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide the fact, which is annoying, but Paris is still where good Americans want to go when they die - and Brits, Russians, and Chinese as well, these days.

Michael Korda

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It's not my business what other people think of me.

Jon Jones

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I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.

Douglass North

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I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

Donna Tartt

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I am my own main rival.

Dayron Robles

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I may not be the biggest guy in the world or strongest guy in the world. I don't have those gifts. But I will take more punishment, and I'm willing to withstand more abuse.

Dean Ambrose

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